pluviophile
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prettygoodwordpluviophile (ploo-vee-oh-FAYL) - n., one who loves rain.
A recent coinage, not yet in dictionaries, from mixed Latin and Greek roots: Latin pluvia, rain + -phile. A cranky entry in the Urban Dictionary points out that it really ought to be hyetophile for someone who likes the rain in general, ombrophile for someone who likes a long, soaking rain, and psekaphile for someone who likes drizzling rain. Needless to say, technically correct but wrong like a Wrong Thing from Outer Wrongolia -- pluviophile is the prettier word, and so wins.
---L.
A recent coinage, not yet in dictionaries, from mixed Latin and Greek roots: Latin pluvia, rain + -phile. A cranky entry in the Urban Dictionary points out that it really ought to be hyetophile for someone who likes the rain in general, ombrophile for someone who likes a long, soaking rain, and psekaphile for someone who likes drizzling rain. Needless to say, technically correct but wrong like a Wrong Thing from Outer Wrongolia -- pluviophile is the prettier word, and so wins.
---L.
