# pluo
## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈplu.oː/, [ˈpɫ̪uoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈplu.o/, [ˈpluːo]

### Verb

pluō (present infinitive pluere, perfect active pluī or plūvī); third conjugation, no supine stem
* Alternative form of pluit (“rain”)
** 44 BCE, Cicero, De Divinatione, section 2.58:Sanguinem pluisse senatui nuntiatum est, Atratum etiam fluvium fluxisse sanguine, deorum sudasse simulacra.It was reported to the senate that blood had rained down, that even the river Atratus had overflowed with blood, and that the statues of the gods had given off sweat.

#### Usage notes

Takes a subject, unlike the impersonal pluit.

#### Conjugation

* Perfect plūvī is Old Latin.

### References

* “pluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “pluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* pluit in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* pluo in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 1745

## Welsh
### Alternative forms

* plufo, plufio

### Etymology

plu +‎ -o

### Verb

pluo (first-person singular present pluaf)
* (transitive) to pluck
* (transitive, figurative) to fleece, to con
* (transitive) to tie (fishing flies)

#### Conjugation

| | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural | impersonal | impersonal |
| | first | second | third | first | second | third | impersonal | impersonal |
| present indicative/future | pluaf | plui | plu, plua | pluwn | pluwch | pluant | pluir |
| imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional | pluwn | pluit | pluai | pluem | pluech | pluent | pluid |
| preterite | pluais | pluaist | pluodd | pluasom | pluasoch | pluasant | pluwyd |
| pluperfect | pluaswn | pluasit | pluasai | pluasem | pluasech | pluasent | pluasid, pluesid |
| present subjunctive | pluwyf | pluych | pluo | pluom | pluoch | pluont | pluer |
| imperative | — | plu, plua | plued | pluwn | pluwch | pluent | pluer |
| verbal noun | pluo | pluo | pluo | pluo | pluo | pluo | pluo |
| verbal adjectives | pluedig pluadwy | pluedig pluadwy | pluedig pluadwy | pluedig pluadwy | pluedig pluadwy | pluedig pluadwy | pluedig pluadwy |
| Inflected colloquial forms | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural |
| Inflected colloquial forms | first | second | third | first | second | third |
| future | plua i, pluaf i | plui di | pluith o/e/hi, pluiff e/hi | pluwn ni | pluwch chi | pluan nhw |
| conditional | pluwn i, pluswn i | pluet ti, pluset ti | pluai fo/fe/hi, plusai fo/fe/hi | pluen ni, plusen ni | pluech chi, plusech chi | pluen nhw, plusen nhw |
| preterite | pluais i, plues i | pluaist ti, pluest ti | pluodd o/e/hi | pluon ni | pluoch chi | pluon nhw |
| imperative | — | plua | — | — | pluwch | — |
| Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh. |||||||

#### Derived terms

* pluo ei nyth
* pluo eira
* pluwr

### Further reading

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pluo”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies