Pluo, pluis, pluui, plui, plutum, plúere: Dicitur Deus. Cic.To raine. In terris pluere. Virg.Pluit lapides. Valer. Max. It raineth stones.Nuntiatum regi lapidibus pluuisse. Li. It was told the king that it rained stones.Pluit terra.Liu.It raineth on the earth.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
plŭo, plui (or plūvi in Plaut. and Liv.; cf. Prisc. p. 881 P.; Varr. L. L. 9, 104 Müll.), 3, v. n., usu. impers. (ante-class. and late Lat. also pers.;v. infra) [root plu-, to swim; Gr. plu/nw, to wash; cf.: ple/w, pleu/sw, to sail; cf. ploro], to rain; constr. absol., or with abl. or acc.I.Lit.: pluet credo hercle hodie, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 42: ut multum pluverat, id. Men. prol. 63: has Graeci stellas Hyadas vocitare suerunt, a pluendo: u(/ein enim est pluere, Cic. N. D. 2, 43, 111: aqua, quae pluendo crevisset,
, Plin. 2, 55, 57, 147. —II.Transf., of other things, to rain (poet.): nec de concussā tantum pluit ilice glandis, Verg. G. 4, 81: stridentia fundae saxa pluunt, Stat. Th. 8, 416: jam bellaria adorea pluebant, id. S. 1, 6, 10.