cavo

cavo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of cavar

• Rhymes: -avo

From Latin cavus.

cavo (feminine singular cava, masculine plural cavi, feminine plural cave)

1. hollow

• vena cava

From Latin cavum, cavus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱówHwos (“cavity”).

cavo m (plural cavi)

1. hollow, cavity

• incavo, cavità

cavo

1. first-person singular present of cavare

• cava
• cavare

Probably from the Spanish cabo.

cavo m (plural cavi)

1. cable
2. rope
3. wire

• cova, vaco, vacò, voca

From cavus (“hollow”) +‎ -ō

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.woː/

cavō (present infinitive cavāre, perfect active cavāvī, supine cavātum); first conjugation

1. I make hollow, hollow out, excavate
2. I perforate, pierce

• cavernō

• excavō
• cavāmen

• cavo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cavo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cavo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to prescribe in one's will: testamento aliquid cavere (Fin. 2. 31)
    

• Rhymes: -avu

cavo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cavar

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabo/, [ˈkaβo]

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• Homophone: cabo

Borrowed from Latin cavus (“concave, hollow”) (adjective) [1].

cavo (feminine singular cava, masculine plural cavos, feminine plural cavas)

1. concave

• cóncavo

• vena cava
• pie cavo

From Latin cavum, cavus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱówHwos (“cavity”).

cavo m (plural cavos)

1. burrow, den

• madriguera

• cava
• cavar

See the etymology of the main entry.

cavo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of cavar.