cavo

See also: cavó and cavò

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈka.βu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈka.vo]

Verb

cavo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cavar

Galician

Verb

cavo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cavar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.vo/
• Rhymes: -avo
• Hyphenation: cà‧vo

Etymology 1

From Latin cavus.

Adjective

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

1. hollow

Derived terms

• vena cava

Etymology 2

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

Noun

cavo m (plural cavi)

1. hollow, cavity

   Synonyms: incavo, cavità

Verb

cavo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cavare

Related terms

• cava
• cavare

Etymology 3

Probably borrowed from Portuguese cabo or from Genoese, ultimately from Latin capulum.

Noun

cavo m (plural cavi)

1. cable
2. rope
3. wire
4. hawser

Derived terms

• misuracavi

Further reading

• Maiden, Martin. 1995. A linguistic history of Italian. London: Longman. Chapter 2, §7.2.

Anagrams

• cova, vaco, vacò, voca

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kawāō. Equivalent to cavus (“hollow”) +‎ -ō; related to Etruscan 𐌂𐌀𐌅𐌄 (cave).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈka.u̯oː/, [ˈkäu̯oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.vo/, [ˈkäːvo]

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

   Conjugation of cavō (first conjugation)

indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	cavō	cavās	cavat	cavāmus	cavātis	cavant
	imperfect	cavābam	cavābās	cavābat	cavābāmus	cavābātis	cavābant
	future	cavābō	cavābis	cavābit	cavābimus	cavābitis	cavābunt
	perfect	cavāvī	cavāvistī	cavāvit	cavāvimus	cavāvistis	cavāvērunt, cavāvēre
	pluperfect	cavāveram	cavāverās	cavāverat	cavāverāmus	cavāverātis	cavāverant
	future perfect	cavāverō	cavāveris	cavāverit	cavāverimus	cavāveritis	cavāverint
passive	present	cavor	cavāris, cavāre	cavātur	cavāmur	cavāminī	cavantur
	imperfect	cavābar	cavābāris, cavābāre	cavābātur	cavābāmur	cavābāminī	cavābantur
	future	cavābor	cavāberis, cavābere	cavābitur	cavābimur	cavābiminī	cavābuntur
	perfect	cavātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	cavātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	cavātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	cavem	cavēs	cavet	cavēmus	cavētis	cavent
imperfect	cavārem	cavārēs	cavāret	cavārēmus	cavārētis	cavārent
perfect	cavāverim	cavāverīs	cavāverit	cavāverīmus	cavāverītis	cavāverint
pluperfect	cavāvissem	cavāvissēs	cavāvisset	cavāvissēmus	cavāvissētis	cavāvissent
passive	present	caver	cavēris, cavēre	cavētur	cavēmur	cavēminī	caventur
imperfect	cavārer	cavārēris, cavārēre	cavārētur	cavārēmur	cavārēminī	cavārentur
perfect	cavātus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect	cavātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	cavā	—	—	cavāte	—
	future	—	cavātō	cavātō	—	cavātōte	cavantō
passive	present	—	cavāre	—	—	cavāminī	—
	future	—	cavātor	cavātor	—	—	cavantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		cavāre	cavāvisse	cavātūrum esse	cavārī	cavātum esse	cavātum īrī
participles		cavāns	—	cavātūrus	—	cavātus	cavandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		cavandī	cavandō	cavandum	cavandō	cavātum	cavātū

Synonyms

• cavernō

Derived terms

• excavō
• cavāmen

Related terms

• cavātus
• caverna
• cavernātim
• cavernō
• cavernōsus
• cavernula
• cavōsitas
• cavum aedium
• cavus

 

Descendants

• Asturian: cavar
• Catalan: cavar
• Friulian: gjavâ
• Galician: cavar
• Italian: cavare
• Occitan: cavar
• Old French: chaver, chever
• Papiamentu: koba
• Portuguese: cavar
• Sicilian: cavari
• Spanish: cavar
• Venetan: cavar

References

• “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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to prescribe in one's will: testamento aliquid cavere (Fin. 2. 31)
    

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.vu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.vu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.vo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈka.vu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈka.vu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈka.bu/ [ˈka.βu]

• (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): [ˈka.βu]
• Rhymes: -avu, (Northern Portugal) -abu
• Homophone: cabo (Northern Portugal)
• Hyphenation: ca‧vo

Verb

cavo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cavar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabo/ [ˈka.β̞o]

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• Rhymes: -abo
• Syllabification: ca‧vo
• Homophone: cabo

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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

1. concave

   Synonym: cóncavo

Derived terms

• pie cavo
• vena cava

 

Etymology 2

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

Noun

cavo m (plural cavos)

1. burrow, den

   Synonym: madriguera

Related terms

• cava
• cavar

 

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cavo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cavar

Further reading

• “cavo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10