ripiovere

Italian

Etymology

From ri- + piovere.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /riˈpjɔ.ve.re/
  • Rhymes: -ɔvere
  • Hyphenation: ri‧piò‧ve‧re

Verb

ripiòvere (first-person singular present ripiòvo, first-person singular past historic ripiòvvi, past participle ripiovùto, auxiliary (impersonal or intransitive) èssere or (impersonal or transitive) avére)

  1. (intransitive, impersonal) to rain again [auxiliary avere or essere]
  2. (intransitive, impersonal, by extension) to drip again [auxiliary avere or essere]
  3. (intransitive) to fall (from the sky) again (of rainwater) [auxiliary essere]
  4. (intransitive, informal, figurative, by extension) to fall from above again, to rain down again [auxiliary essere]
  5. (intransitive, informal, figurative, by extension) to come in large quantities again [auxiliary essere]
  6. (transitive, literary) to (cause to) rain again, to rain down again [auxiliary avere]
    • Che si canzona? E' non par nemmeno che sia mangio: piovi, piovi e ripiovi, m'è bell'e venuto a noia.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
      ("Di Palo In Frasca", in Il Borghini (Giornale di Filologia e di Lettere Italiane), Anno III, July 1876)
    • Ah! Si apritevi di bel nuovo, o Cieli, e su di noi ripiovete la mistica rugiada!
      Ah! Open yourself again, O Heavens, and rain down again on us the mystical dews!
      (Angelo Bigoni, Elevazioni dell'anima in Dio per le varie ore della giornata, 1819)

Usage notes

  • The non-third-person forms are rare, but as shown in the examples above, they do exist.

Conjugation

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