cavus
See also: çavuş
English
Etymology
Noun
cavus (uncountable)
- (geology) In planetary geology, it is used to refer to irregular steep-sided depressions that do not seem to be impact craters.
Anagrams
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); first/second-declension adjective
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
Related terms
Noun
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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
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.
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