plovier
Old French
Alternative forms
- plover, pluvier
Etymology
Inherited from Medieval Latin pluviārius, probably from Latin pluvia (“rain”).
Noun
plovier m (oblique plural ploviers, nominative singular ploviers, nominative plural plovier)
- plover (bird)
- circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
- Qui de l'alete d'un plovier
Peissoit sor son poing l'esprevier- (please add an English translation of this quote)
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Descendants
- French: pluvier
- → Middle English: plover, plewer, pluver, pluwer; plovere, ploware, plowere
- English: plover
- Scots: pliver, plivver