SHOWER Copy link • SHOWER 1. v. fundere: effundere: superfundere (PROP. and figuratively). 2. s. PROP., imber (general term): nimbus (a sudden shower): pluvia (rain). A heavy shower fell, magnus imber ruebat caelo (densi funduntur ab aethere nimbi, Ov.): a sudden and heavy shower, nimbus effusus (Liv.). April shower, *pluvia cui sol interfulget. Figuratively, imber: nimbus: copia: vis: velut procella (e.g., of missiles, Liv., 37, 41). There fell such a shower of stones, that, etc., tanta vis lapidum creberrimae grandinis modo effusa est, ut, etc.