ploia
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan ploja, from Vulgar Latin *ploia, *plovia, from Classical Latin pluvia (“rain”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈplɔ.ja/
- Rhymes: -ɔja
- Hyphenation: plò‧ia
Noun
ploia f (plural ploie)
- (obsolete) rain
- Synonyms: pioggia, (regional or literary) piova
- early 14th century, Dante, “Canto XIV”, in Paradiso, lines 25–27:
- Qual si lamenta perché qui si moia
per viver colà sù, non vide quive
lo refrigerio de l’etterna ploia.- Those who lament that here we die, in order to live up there, never saw the coolness of the eternal rain here.
Further reading
- ploia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
- Palio, opali, palio