caverna

See also: cavernă

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin caverna.

Noun

caverna f (plural cavernes)

1. cavern

Related terms

• cavernós

Further reading

• “caverna” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “caverna”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “caverna” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “caverna” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin caverna.

Noun

caverna f (plural caverne)

1. cave, cavern

Related terms

• cavernoso

Anagrams

• cavarne

Further reading

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

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Latin

Etymology

From cavus (“hollow”) +‎ -rnus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaˈu̯er.na/, [käˈu̯ɛrnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈver.na/, [käˈvɛrnä]

Noun

caverna f (genitive cavernae); first declension

1. cave, cavern, grotto
   • 29-19 BC, 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

2. vault, chamber, cleft
3. hold (cargo compartment of a ship)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	caverna	cavernae
Genitive	cavernae	cavernārum
Dative	cavernae	cavernīs
Accusative	cavernam	cavernās
Ablative	cavernā	cavernīs
Vocative	caverna	cavernae

Related terms

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

 

Descendants

• Catalan: caverna
• English: cavern
• French: caverne
• Galician: caverna
• Italian: caverna
• Portuguese: caverna
• Romanian: cavernă
• → Russian: каве́рна (kavérna)
• Spanish: caverna

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.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caverna.

Noun

caverna f (plural s)

1. cave

Related terms

• cavernoso

Further reading

• Template:R:Priberam

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Romanian

Noun

caverna f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of cavernă

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caverna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈbeɾna/ [kaˈβ̞eɾ.na]

Noun

caverna f (plural cavernas)

1. cavern

Related terms

• cavernoso

Further reading

• “caverna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

References