pluviophile: lover of rain

It may not look like it at first glance, but I spent more time on this one than I usually do. And it's one of the few times a drawing turned out better than what I saw in my head. There are all sorts of things at work here: markers, paint pens, colored pencils, regular pencils...

It's easily one of my favorites I've ever drawn.

So why is a rain lover a pluviophile, when that doesn't sound like it has anything to do with rain? Turns out, "pluvia" is the Latin word for rain. Which seems odd to me; why doesn't that root ever pop up in any of our other rain-related words? (Okay, so there's "pluvial," which means "related to rain" or "rainy." But that's it.)

Whatever it is, I think it's a cool word. Where else can you find P, V, and U all in the same word?

(Don't start listing them. Life is hard. Let me have this.)

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