plovier

Old French

Alternative forms

plover, pluvier

Etymology

From Medieval Latin pluviārius, probably from Latin pluvia (“rain”).

Noun

plovier oblique singular, m (oblique plural ploviers, nominative singular ploviers, nominative plural plovier)

plover (bird)
- c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
  Qui de l'alete d'un plovier
  Peissoit sor son poing l'esprevier
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

French: pluvier
→ Middle Dutch: pluvier
- Dutch: plevier
→ Middle English: plover, plewer, pluver, pluwer; plovere, ploware, plowere
- English: plover
- Scots: pliver, plivver

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