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Italian
Etymology
From ri- + piovere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /riˈpjɔ.ve.re/
- Rhymes: -ɔvere
- Hyphenation: ri‧piò‧ve‧re
Verb
ripiòvere (first-person singular present ripiòvo, first-person singular past historic ripiòvvi, past participle ripiovùto, auxiliary (impersonal or intransitive) èssere or (impersonal or transitive) avére)
- (intransitive, impersonal) to rain again
- (intransitive, impersonal, by extension) to drip again
- (intransitive) to fall (from the sky) again (of rainwater)
- (intransitive, informal, figurative, by extension) to fall from above again, to rain down again
- (intransitive, informal, figurative, by extension) to come in large quantities again
- (transitive, literary) to (cause to) rain again, to rain down again
Che si canzona? E' non par nemmeno che sia mangio: piovi, piovi e ripiovi, m'è bell'e venuto a noia.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- ("Di Palo In Frasca", in Il Borghini (Giornale di Filologia e di Lettere Italiane), Anno III, July 1876)
Ah! Si apritevi di bel nuovo, o Cieli, e su di noi ripiovete la mistica rugiada!- Ah! Open yourself again, O Heavens, and rain down again on us the mystical dews!
- (Angelo Bigoni, Elevazioni dell'anima in Dio per le varie ore della giornata, 1819)
Usage notes
- The non-third-person forms are rare, but as shown in the examples above, they do exist.
Conjugation
1Impersonal or intransitive.
2Impersonal or transitive.