cavernosus

Latin

Etymology

From caverna (“a hollow, cave, cavity”) +‎ -ōsus (“-ous, -ose”, adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ka.u̯erˈnoː.sus/, [käu̯ɛrˈnoːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.verˈno.sus/, [käverˈnɔːs̬us]

Adjective

cavernōsus (feminine cavernōsa, neuter cavernōsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. full of hollows or cavities; cavernous

Inflection

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	cavernōsus	cavernōsa	cavernōsum		cavernōsī	cavernōsae	cavernōsa
genitive	cavernōsī	cavernōsae	cavernōsī		cavernōsōrum	cavernōsārum	cavernōsōrum
dative	cavernōsō	cavernōsae	cavernōsō		cavernōsīs
accusative	cavernōsum	cavernōsam	cavernōsum		cavernōsōs	cavernōsās	cavernōsa
ablative	cavernōsō	cavernōsā	cavernōsō		cavernōsīs
vocative	cavernōse	cavernōsa	cavernōsum		cavernōsī	cavernōsae	cavernōsa

Related terms

• cavātus
• caverna
• cavernātim
• cavernō
• cavernula
• cavō
• cavōsitās
• cavum aedium
• cavus

 

Descendants

• → Italian: cavernoso
• → Old French: caverneux
  • French: caverneux
    • → Romanian: cavernos
  • → Middle English: cavernous
    • English: cavernous
• → Portuguese: cavernoso
• → Spanish: cavernoso

References

• “cavernosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cavernosus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cavernosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.