cavo

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See also: cavó and cavò

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

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

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Derived terms

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Descendants

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
 

Verb

cavo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cavar

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkabo/
  • Audio:(file)
  • 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

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

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cavo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cavar

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Further reading

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