chuvia

• choiva, chuva

From Old Galician-Portuguese chuvia, from Latin pluvia. Compare Portuguese chuva.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃubja/ [ˈt͡ʃu.β̞jɐ]
• Rhymes: -ubja
• Hyphenation: chu‧via

chuvia f (plural chuvias)

1. rain

• chuvasco
• chuvasqueiro
• chuvia de meteoros
• chuvieira
• chuviñar
• chuvioso
• chuvisca
• chuviscar

• chover

• “chuvia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “chuvia”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chuvia”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chuvia”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chuvia”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• lluvia

Inherited from Latin pluvia.

chuvia f (plural chuvias)

1. rain

• AEDLL
• Pallabreiru Llïonés

• chovia, chuvha

Inherited from Latin pluvia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃuβja/

chuvia f

1. rain
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 143 (facsimile):

     Enton a uirgen as nuueſabrir / fez ⁊ delas tan g[ra]n chuuia ſayr / que quantos chorauã fezo ryr / ⁊ yr con grand alegria.

     Then the Virgin made the clouds open and such great rain to issue from them that it caused all who were weeping to laugh and go their way happily.

• chover

• Galician: chuvia, choiva
• Portuguese: chuva, chuiva (dated, dialectal) (see there for further descendants)