cavo

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.vo/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈka.bu/

cavo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of cavar

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

From Latin cavus.

cavo (feminine cava, masculine plural cavi, feminine plural cave)

1. hollow

• vena cava

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

cavo m (plural cavi)

1. hollow, cavity

   Synonyms: incavo, cavità

cavo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cavare

• cava
• cavare

Probably borrowed from Portuguese cabo or from Genoese.

cavo m (plural cavi)

1. cable
2. rope
3. wire
4. hawser

• misuracavi

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

• cova, vaco, vacò, voca

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

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

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

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

• cavernō

• excavō
• cavāmen

• “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)
    

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

cavo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cavar

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabo/ [ˈka.β̞o]

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• Rhymes: -abo
• Syllabification: ca‧vo
• Homophone: cabo

Borrowed from Latin cavus (“concave, hollow”, adjective)[1].

cavo (feminine cava, masculine plural cavos, feminine plural cavas)

1. concave

   Synonym: cóncavo

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

cavo m (plural cavos)

1. burrow, den

   Synonym: madriguera

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cavo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cavar

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