cavatus

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of cavō (“hollow out, excavate”).

Pronunciation

Participle

cavātus (feminine cavāta, neuter cavātum); first/second-declension participle

  1. hollowed out, excavated, hollow, having been hollowed out
  2. perforated, pierced, having been pierced

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative cavātus cavāta cavātum cavātī cavātae cavāta
genitive cavātī cavātae cavātī cavātōrum cavātārum cavātōrum
dative cavātō cavātae cavātō cavātīs
accusative cavātum cavātam cavātum cavātōs cavātās cavāta
ablative cavātō cavātā cavātō cavātīs
vocative cavāte cavāta cavātum cavātī cavātae cavāta

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: cavate
  • Italian: cavato
  • Portuguese: cavado
  • Sicilian: cavatu
  • Spanish: cavado

References

  • “cavatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cavatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cavatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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