pluo
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈplu.oː/, [ˈpɫ̪uoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈplu.o/, [ˈpluːo]
Verb
pluō (present infinitive pluere, perfect active pluī or plūvī); third conjugation, no supine stem
- Alternative form of pluit (“rain”)
- 44 BC, Cicero, De Divinatione, 2.58:
- Sanguinem pluisse senatui nuntiatum est, Atratum etiam fluvium fluxisse sanguine, deorum sudasse simulacra.
- It was reported to the senate that blood had rained down, that even the river Atratus had overflowed with blood, and that the statues of the gods had given off sweat.
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Usage notes
Takes a subject, unlike the impersonal pluit.
Conjugation
- Perfect plūvī is Archaic.
| Conjugation of pluō (third conjugation, no supine stem, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | pluō | pluis | pluit | pluimus | pluitis | pluunt |
| imperfect | pluēbam | pluēbās | pluēbat | pluēbāmus | pluēbātis | pluēbant | |
| future | pluam | pluēs | pluet | pluēmus | pluētis | pluent | |
| perfect | pluī, plūvī | pluistī, plūvistī | pluit, plūvit | pluimus, plūvimus | pluistis, plūvistis | pluērunt, pluēre, plūvērunt, plūvēre | |
| pluperfect | plueram, plūveram | pluerās, plūverās | pluerat, plūverat | pluerāmus, plūverāmus | pluerātis, plūverātis | pluerant, plūverant | |
| future perfect | pluerō, plūverō | plueris, plūveris | pluerit, plūverit | pluerimus, plūverimus | plueritis, plūveritis | pluerint, plūverint | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | pluam | pluās | pluat | pluāmus | pluātis | pluant |
| imperfect | pluerem | pluerēs | plueret | pluerēmus | pluerētis | pluerent | |
| perfect | pluerim, plūverim | pluerīs, plūverīs | pluerit, plūverit | pluerīmus, plūverīmus | pluerītis, plūverītis | pluerint, plūverint | |
| pluperfect | pluissem, plūvissem | pluissēs, plūvissēs | pluisset, plūvisset | pluissēmus, plūvissēmus | pluissētis, plūvissētis | pluissent, plūvissent | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | plue | — | — | pluite | — |
| future | — | pluitō | pluitō | — | pluitōte | pluuntō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | pluere | pluisse, plūvisse | — | — | — | — | |
| participles | pluēns | — | — | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| pluendī | pluendō | pluendum | pluendō | — | — | ||
References
- “pluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pluit in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- pluo in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, volume 2, 8th edition, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 1745