chover
Portuguese
/ʃuˈveɾ/, /ʃoˈve(ʁ)/
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) to rain to fall (drops of water) from the sky
- (transitive) to rain to fall (a given substance or objects) from the sky in great amounts
- (transitive) to rain on to cause to fall in great amounts upon
- (transitive) to fall from the sky to come or occur in great amounts
- (transitive) to shower with to provide with great amounts of
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese chover inherited from Latin *plovere, pluere.
Origin
Latin
pluere
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *plovere Latin
- *plŏvĕre Latin
- pluere Latin
- pluit Latin
- pluō Latin
- llover Spanish, Castilian
- ploure Catalan, Valencian
- chover Galician
- ploua Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- chover Old Portuguese
- llover Asturian
- plovi Friulian
- ghioviri Sicilian
- pióvar Venetian
- yobe Papiamentu
- cêuve Ligurian
- tchobi Kabuverdianu
- plovei Ladin
- pròere Sardinian
- pleber Aragonese