piova

See also: pióva

Istriot

Alternative forms

• peiòva

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *plovia, from Latin pluvia. Compare Venetan pióva.

Noun

piova f

1. rain

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjɔ.va/
• Rhymes: -ɔva
• Hyphenation: piò‧va

Etymology 1

Deverbal from piovere (“to rain”) +‎ -a. Piecewise doublet of pioggia and ploia.

Noun

piova f (plural piove)

1. (regional or literary) rain

   Synonyms: pioggia, (obsolete) ploia

   • late 13^th century [1260–1267], anonymous translator, Il tesoro [The treasure], translation of Livres dou Tresor by Brunetto Latini (in Old French); collected in “Della parte d’Oriente, ch’è appellata Asia [On the part of the East which is called Asia]” (chapter 2), Libro III, in Luigi Gaiter, editor, Il tesoro‎^[1], volume 2, Bologna: Romagnoli, 1877, page 19:

     Ma dall’altra parte, che guarda in verso settentrione, non v’ha altro che venti e piova.

     [original: mais d'autre part, qui esgarde septentrion, n'a que vens et pluies]

     But on the other side, which faces towards North, there is nothing but winds and rain.

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VI”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[2], lines 7–8; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[3], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Io sono al terzo cerchio, de la piova
     etterna, maladetta, fredda e greve

     I'm at the Third Circle, [that] of the eternal, cursed, cold, and heavy rain

   • 1358–1361 [578–595], Zanobi da Strada, transl., Morali del pontefice S. Gregorio Magno sopra il Libro di Giobbe [Morals of pontiff St. Gregory the Great on the Book of Job] (Biblical commentary), translation of Mōrālia in Iōb by Gregorius Anicius (in Late Latin); republished as “Libro XXVII [Book 27]” (chapter 1), in I morali del pontefice S. Gregorio Magno sopra il Libro di Giobbe volgarizzati da Zanobi da Strata‎^[4], volume 4, Rome: Rocco Bernabò, 1730, section 17, page 43:

     Il quale comanda alla neve, che diſcenda in terra, e alle piove del verno

     [Il quale comanda alla neve, che discenda in terra, e alle piove del verno]

     [original: Quī praecipit nivī ut dēscendat in terram et hiemis pluviīs]

     Who [God] commands the snow to descend on earth, and the rains of winter

   • 1605 [1304–1309], “Del sito del luogo abitabile, e del conoscimento della bontà, e malizia sua. [On the location of habitable places, and on the knowledge of their goodness and badness]” (chapter 5), in Bastiano de' Rossi, transl., Trattato dell'agricoltura [Treatise on agriculture]‎^[5], Florence: published by Cosimo Giusti, translation of Rūrālium commodōrum librī XII by Pietro De' Crescenzi (in Medieval Latin), page 16:

     Sono ancora i luoghi alti più sicuri dalle piove

     Furthermore, high places are safer from rains

Derived terms

• piovicella

Related terms

• pioviggina

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

piova

1. inflection of piovere:
   1. third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• piova in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana