cavus

See also: çavuş

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cavus.

Noun

cavus (uncountable)

1. (geology) In planetary geology, it is used to refer to irregular steep-sided depressions that do not seem to be impact craters.

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kawos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱowHós (“hollow”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewH- (“to swell”). Related to Old Irish cúas (“hollow, cavity”), Tocharian B kor (“throat”), Albanian cup (“odd, uneven”), Ancient Greek κύαρ (kúar, “eye of needle, earhole”), Old Armenian սոր (sor, “hole”), Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya, “empty, barren, zero”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈka.u̯us/, [ˈkäu̯ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.vus/, [ˈkäːvus]

Adjective

cavus (feminine cava, neuter cavum, comparative cavior); first/second-declension adjective

1. hollow, concave
2. excavated, channeled

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cavus	cava	cavum		cavī	cavae	cava
Genitive	cavī	cavae	cavī		cavōrum	cavārum	cavōrum
Dative	cavō		cavō		cavīs
Accusative	cavum	cavam	cavum		cavōs	cavās	cava
Ablative	cavō	cavā	cavō		cavīs
Vocative	cave	cava	cavum		cavī	cavae	cava

Antonyms

• (concave): plēnus

Derived terms

• cava
• cavea
• caverna
• cavitās
• cavum
• cavāticus
• cavō
• concavus
• multicavus
• recavus
• succavus

 

Related terms

• cavaedium
• caveola
• cavernula
• cavernātim
• cavernātim
• cavernō
• cavernōsus
• caveālis
• caveātus
• cavālis
• cavāmen
• cavātiō
• cavātor
• cavātus
• cavātūra
• cavōsitās
• concavitās
• concavō
• excavātiō
• excavō
• incavō
• multicavātus
• subtercavātus

 

Noun

cavus m (genitive cavī); second declension

1. Alternative form of cavum

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cavus	cavī
Genitive	cavī	cavōrum
Dative	cavō	cavīs
Accusative	cavum	cavōs
Ablative	cavō	cavīs
Vocative	cave	cavī

Descendants

• Aromanian: gavrã
• Catalan: cau, cova, cava
• English: cave, cavus
• Esperanto: kavo
• French: cave, gavon

• Italian: cavo, cavana
• Portuguese: cavo, cova
• Romanian: gaură
• Spanish: cavo

References

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 592
• “cavus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cavus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cavus 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)
• cavus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.