Etymograph

English

equipluve

Equipluve comes from Latin pluvia ‘rain’, from pluvius ‘rainy’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *plew- ‘to flow, float, wash’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*plew-1‘to flow, float, wash’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*plowō1reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpluit2‘to rain’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpluvius3‘rainy’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpluvia4‘rain’
  6. Englishtodayequipluve4

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin pluit
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Latin pluvius
  3. 3 Wiktionary, Latin pluvia
  4. 4 Wiktionary, English equipluve

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*plew-Wiktionary, Latin pluit‘to flow, float, wash’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*plowōWiktionary, Latin pluitreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpluitWiktionary, Latin pluvius‘to rain’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpluviusWiktionary, Latin pluvia‘rainy’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpluviaWiktionary, English equipluve‘rain’
  6. EnglishtodayequipluveWiktionary, English equipluve

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *plew- ‘to flow, float, wash’

fly, flow, flew, pneumonia, fowl, plutonium, plough, flue, flay, plutocracy, 24 more

through Latin pluvia ‘rain’

plover, 4 more

Today it means

noun A line, drawn on a map, that connects places having the same amount of rainfall in a particular time period

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “equipluve”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin pluit, Latin pluvius, Latin pluvia. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *plew- / equipluve

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