Pluviose
/ˌpluː.viˈoʊz/noun
The fifth month of the French Republican calendar, roughly corresponding to late January through late February.
Did you know?Pluviôse comes from Latin pluviosus, “rainy,” ultimately from pluvia, “rain,” from the same root that gave English words like pluvial and even the ancient idea of weather as a force of fate.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*pleu-
“to flow, float, or rain”
Latin
Latin
pluvia
“rain”
Late Latin
Latin
pluviosus
“rainy, full of rain”
1793
French
Pluviôse
“the rainy month in the French Republican calendar”
Modern English
English
pluviose
“pertaining to rain; rainy”
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