pluvia
ὦ θάνατε παιάν, μή μ᾽ ἀτιμάσῃς μολεῖν· μόνος γὰρ εἶ σὺ τῶν ἀνηκέστων κακῶν ἰατρός, ἄλγος δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἅπτεται νεκροῦ. → O death, the healer, reject me not, but come! For thou alone art the mediciner of ills incurable, and no pain layeth hold on the dead.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
plŭvĭa: ae, f. (sc. aqua) pluvius.
I Rain (class.; cf. imber): pluvias metuo, Cic. Att. 15, 16: tenues, Verg. G. 1, 92: in gens, id. ib. 325: a pluviā tueri, Juv. 3, 202: de pluviis loqui, id. 4, 87: pluviarum signa, Sen. Q. N. 1, 9, 1: qui aufert stillas pluviae, Vulg. Job, 36, 27.—
II Transf., a fall or shower of any thing (post-class.; cf. pluo); of blossoms, Claud. Nupt. Honor. 298: pluvia ignea, Aug. Quaest. in Num. 4, 27; id. Serm. 105, 7.—
III Rain-water (post-Aug.): admixtā pluviā, Plin. 33, 6, 34, § 103.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
plŭvĭa,¹¹ æ, f., pluie : Cic. Att. 15, 16 ; Virg. G. 1, 92 || eau de pluie : Plin. 33, 103.
