A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin


Rain: pluvia,-ae (s.f.I), abl.sg. pluvia, rain, 'gentle, fertilizing rain;' imber, gen.sg. imbris (s.m.III), abl. sg. imbre, ‘a shower or storm of rain, pelting rain;’ see ombr-, ombro-, in Gk. comp; - tempore pluviarum, at the time of the rains (Stearn). - imber magnus (adj.A), abl. sg. imbre magno, heavy rain.
rain-fearing: ombrophobus,-a,-um (adj.A); ombrophobicus,-a,-um (adj.A): rain-fearing, unable to withstand rain or much rain.
rain-loving: ombrophilus,-a,-um (adj.A); ombrophilicus,-a,-um (adj.A), rain-loving, able to withstand rains, as in areas of torrential downpours: sylva ombrophila, rain forest.
of or belonging, relating to rain, rainy: imbrialis,-e (adj.B); pluvialis,-e (adj.A); pluviaticus,-a,-um (adj.A); pluviatilis,-e (adj.B); - aqua (s.f.I) imbrialis, rain-water. - aqua (s.f.I) pluvialis (adj.B), abl. sg. aqua pluviali, rain-water. - sylva,-ae (s.f.I) pluvialis, rainforest.
rain water: aqua,-ae (s.f.I) pluvialis (adj.B). NOTE: soligenus,-a,-um (adj.A): soligenous, soil features, such as bogs, produced by inflow of surface water or rise of ground water and not by locally precipitated water, generally rich in minerals [> L. solum,-i (s.n.II) ground + -genus, ‘born of, produced from’]; cf. ombrotrophicus,-a,-um (adj.A), ombrotrophus,-a,-um (adj.A), with water derived entirely from precipitation, hence poor in nutrients.
rain-bringing, rainy, stormy: nimbifer,-fera,-ferum (adj.A): rain-bearing or -bringing, stormy; - nubes nimbiferae, stormy clouds, rain-bearing clouds.