ripiovere

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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)

  1. (intransitive, impersonal) to rain again
  2. (intransitive, impersonal, by extension) to drip again
  3. (intransitive) to fall (from the sky) again (of rainwater)
  4. (intransitive, informal, figurative, by extension) to fall from above again, to rain down again
  5. (intransitive, informal, figurative, by extension) to come in large quantities again
  6. (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