Pluere

Pluere is a Latin verb meaning "to rain" and is used to describe precipitation. It functions primarily as an impersonal weather verb, typically without an explicit subject. In English translations its sense is rendered with expressions like "it rains." The infinitive pluere is chiefly of grammatical and historical interest today rather than a common lexical item in modern Latin texts.

Morphology and usage: In classical Latin, pluere appears in impersonal constructions, where the weather event is treated as the subject of the sentence without a named agent. The present-tense form commonly associated with weather is a third-person singular, such as "pluit" (it rains). The infinitive pluere is used mainly in dictionaries or non-finite clauses, and the verb is not conjugated in the normal person-number system for a clear subject.

Etymology and cognates: Pluere is the source of several Romance-language weather verbs. Italian piove and French pleut derive from the Latin root pluit/pluere, illustrating a common development of weather predicates across the Romance family. This lineage reflects how languages adapt weather expressions from an impersonal Latin model.

See also: Weather in Latin; Latin verbs and impersonal constructions; Romance language weather verbs.