cavo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈka.βu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈka.vo]

Verb

cavo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cavar

Verb

cavo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cavar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.vo/
• Rhymes: -avo
• Hyphenation: cà‧vo

Etymology 1

From Latin cavus.

Etymology 2

From Latin cavum, cavus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱówHwos (“cavity”).

Etymology 3

Probably borrowed from Portuguese cabo or from Genoese, ultimately from Latin capulum.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• cova, vaco, vacò, voca

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈka.u̯oː/, [ˈkäu̯oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.vo/, [ˈkäːvo]

Verb

cavō (present infinitive cavāre, perfect active cavāvī, supine cavātum); first conjugation

1. to make hollow, hollow out, excavate
2. to perforate, pierce

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)
    

Pronunciation

• (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): [ˈka.βu]
• Rhymes: -avu, (Northern Portugal) -abu
• Homophone: cabo (Northern Portugal)
• Hyphenation: ca‧vo

Verb

cavo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cavar