cavea

Latin

Etymology

Noun use of the neuter plural of adjective cavus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈka.u̯e.a/, [ˈkäu̯eä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ve.a/, [ˈkäːveä]

Noun

cavea f (genitive caveae); first declension

1. hollow, cavity
2. cage, den, enclosure, stall, coop, beehive, birdcage
3. the seats in a theatre
4. the sockets of the eyes
5. the roof of the mouth

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cavea	caveae
Genitive	caveae	caveārum
Dative	caveae	caveīs
Accusative	caveam	caveās
Ablative	caveā	caveīs
Vocative	cavea	caveae

Synonyms

• (beehive): alvārium, alveārium, alveus, alvus, apiārium, mellārium

Descendants

• Old French: cage
  • → English: cage
    • → Zulu ikheji
  • French: cage
  • Sicilian: caggia, gaggia
• Friulian: cabie, chebe
• Italian: gabbia, cavea
• Middle Dutch: coye, koye (borrowing)
  • Dutch: kooi
    • Afrikaans: kooi

• Middle Low German: kōje (borrowing)
  • Danish: køje
  • German: Koje
  • Icelandic: koja
  • Norwegian: køye
  • Swedish: koj
• Old Portuguese:
  • Galician: gabia
  • Portuguese: cávea (borrowing), gaiva, gávea (borrowing)
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: gàbia
  • Occitan: gàbia
• Sicilian: cagghia, gagghia
• Spanish: gavia, cávea (borrowing)
• Venetian: càbia, gàbia, chèba, ghèba
• Vulgar Latin: *caveola

References

• “cavea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cavea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cavea 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)
• cavea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cavea”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “cavea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cavea”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin