chover
Meaning
- (impersonal,intransitive) to rain (to fall (drops of water) from the sky)
- (impersonal,transitive) to rain (to fall (a given substance or objects) from the sky in great amounts)
- (transitive) to rain on (to cause to fall in great amounts upon)
- (impersonal,poetic,transitive) to fall from the sky (to come or occur in great amounts)
- (poetic,transitive) to shower with (to provide with great amounts of)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
cho‧ver
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃoˈve(ʁ)/
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chover, from Vulgar Latin *plovere, from Classical Latin pluere. Cognate with Galician chover and Spanish llover.
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