caverna

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See also: cavērna and cavernă

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Etymology

From Latin caverna.

Noun

caverna f (plural cavernes)

  1. cavern

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

From Latin caverna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈvɛr.na/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrna
  • Hyphenation: ca‧vèr‧na

Noun

caverna f (plural caverne)

  1. cave, cavern

Further reading

  • caverna in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From cavus (“hollow, excavated, concave”).

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Pronunciation

Noun

caverna f (genitive cavernae); first declension

  1. a hollow, cavity, cave, cavern, grotto, hole
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 8.420:
      striduntque cauernis / stricturae Chalybum et fornacibus ignis anhelat
      Chalybian ores hiss in the caverns, and from the furnace mouths puff the hot-panting fires
    1. a vault, chamber, cleft of heaven
    2. a hold (cargo compartment of a ship)
    3. (vulgar, euphemistic) bodily orifice
      • c. 310 CE – c. 394 CE, Ausonius, Epigrams 79 Subscriptum Picturae Mulieris impudicae:
        Crispa tamen cunctas exercet corpore in uno: deglubit, fellat, molitur per utramque cavernam, ne quid inexpertum frustra moritura relinquat.
        Crispa, however, practises them all with one body: she masturbates, fellates, and is worked at either hole, lest she should die in vain leaving anything untried.
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Inflection

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative caverna cavernae
genitive cavernae cavernārum
dative cavernae cavernīs
accusative cavernam cavernās
ablative cavernā cavernīs
vocative caverna cavernae

Derived terms

Descendants

Descendants

References

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: ca‧ver‧na

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin caverna.

Noun

caverna f (plural cavernas)

  1. cave
  2. (nautical) rib (part of a ship’s framework)
    Synonym: costela
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

caverna

  1. inflection of cavernar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Romanian

Noun

caverna f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of cavernă

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caverna.[1] Cognate with English cavern.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈbeɾna/
  • Rhymes: -eɾna
  • Syllabification: ca‧ver‧na

Noun

caverna f (plural cavernas)

  1. cavern

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1983–1991) “caverna”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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