chubasco
English
noun
Definitions
- (nautical) A violent squall with thunder and lightning, encountered during the rainy season along the Pacific coast of Central America and South America.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish, Castilian chubasco (downpour) derived from Portuguese chuva (rain) derived from Latin pluvia (rain).
Origin
Latin
pluvia
Gloss
rain
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
雨
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- pluvial English
- *ploia Latin
- *plovia Latin
- *pluviārius Latin
- *pluvīna Latin
- parare, parō Latin
- plovia, *ploia Latin
- pluvia Latin
- pluviograaf Dutch, Flemish
- chubasco Spanish, Castilian
- *plew- Proto-Indo-European
- chuva Portuguese
- chuvasco Portuguese
- chuvisco Portuguese
- chuvoso Portuguese
- pluvo Esperanto
- chuva Galician
- chuvasco Galician
- chuvia Old Portuguese
- plievgia Romansh
- plievia Romansh
- plövgia Romansh
- chubascu Asturian
- lluvia Asturian
- lluuia Old Spanish
- tchuva Kabuverdianu
- txuba Kabuverdianu
- txuva Kabuverdianu
- pleuge Bourguignon
- pluvia Interlingua
- tcuba Guinea-Bissau Creole