Where does “chubasco” come from?
chubasco (English) comes from Spanish chubasco, from Galician chuvasco, from Galician chuvia, from Old Portuguese chuvia, from Latin pluvia, from Latin pluvius, from Latin pluit, from Proto-Italic plowō.
chubasco (English): A violent squall with thunder and lightning,...
Definitions
- A violent squall with thunder and lightning,...
Ancestry of “chubasco”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Spanish | chubasco | downpour, squall |
| 2 | Galician | chuvasco | downpour; shower |
| 3 | Galician | chuvia | rain |
| 4 | Old Portuguese | chuvia | rain |
| 5 | Latin | pluvia | rain; a shower; feminine nominative singular of... |
| 6 | Latin | pluvius | rainy, bringing rain; The inner court of a... |
| 7 | Latin | pluit | It rains; it is raining |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | plowō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pléweti | — |