Pluviometer
/ˌpluː.viˈɒm.ɪ.tər/noun
A device used to measure rainfall.
Did you know?Pluviometer is a learned scientific coinage built from Latin pluvius (“rainy”) and Greek -meter (“measure”), so it literally turns the heavens’ water into a readable spell of data.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*pleu-
“to flow, to swim”
Latin
Latin
pluvia
“rain”
Latin
Latin
pluvius
“rainy; relating to rain”
Ancient Greek
Greek
metron
“measure”
19th Century
French/Scientific Latin
pluviomètre
“rain gauge”
Modern English
English
pluviometer
“rain gauge”
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