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piovere
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Italian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *plovere, from Classical Latin pluere.
Pronunciation
Verb
piòvere (first-person singular present piòvo, first-person singular past historic piòvvi, past participle piovùto, auxiliary (impersonal or intransitive) èssere or (impersonal or transitive) avére)
- (intransitive, impersonal) to rain [auxiliary avere or essere]
- (intransitive, impersonal, by extension) to drip [auxiliary avere or essere]
- (intransitive) to fall (from the sky) (of rainwater) [auxiliary essere]
- piovono le gocce via via più grandi
- bigger and bigger (rain)drops are falling
- (intransitive, informal, figurative, by extension) to fall from above, to rain down [auxiliary essere]
- piovono sassi
- stones are raining down
- (intransitive, informal, figurative, by extension) to come in large quantities [auxiliary essere]
- piovono insulti da ogni parte
- insults are flying in from all angles
- (literally, “insults are coming in large quantities from everywhere”)
- (transitive, literary) to (cause to) rain, to rain down [auxiliary avere]
- Padre e Signor, s'al popol tuo piovesti / Già le dolci rugiade entro al deserto
- Father and Lord, if you rained upon your people / already the sweet dews within the desert
- (Torquato Tasso, La Gerusalemme Liberata, Canto XIII)
Usage notes
- The non-third-person singular forms are rare, but as shown in the examples above, they do exist.
Conjugation
1Impersonal or intransitive.
2Impersonal or transitive.
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