pluvious, adj.
Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈpluːvɪəs/, U.S. /ˈpluviəs/
Forms: lME pluuyous, 15 pluviouse, 16 pluvius, 16– pluvious.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman pluvious and Middle French, French pluvieux (1247 in Old French as pluvieus; compare earlier pluios (12th cent.), plujos (1213)), or its etymon classical Latin pluviōsus pluviose adj.; compare -ous suffix. Compare Spanish lluvioso (c1275 or earlier; also as pluvioso (c1370)), Italian pluvioso (a1306; now usually piovoso).
Of, relating to, or characterized by rain; full of or bearing rain or moisture; rainy.
?1440 tr. Palladius De Re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) vi. 66 In places ouer colde And pluuyous [L. pluuiosis], olyues is to done To kitte, and mosse awey be rased wolde.
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 48/2 The ayre is to moyste and pluviouse or raynye.
1635 D. Person Varieties ii. 58 This falls downe with the pluvious or rainy vapour.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. iv. 346 The Rainebow..declareth a pluvious disposure in the ayre.
1718 J. Breval Play is Plot ii. i. 11 There is such a general Inundation, caus'd lately by the Abundance of pluvious Particles.
1798 tr. L. F. L. de Lignac Physical View Man & Woman I. 334 Those [winds] which predominate there are very humid and pluvious.
1844 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 56 371 The pluvious metropolis of the west.
a1876 M. Collins Thoughts in Garden (1880) II. 235 Dost thou not find that this pluvious weather produceth much newspaper stupidity?
1999 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 25 Oct. 2 In this pluvious country, however, it seems that a little rain must fall on every parade.
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