cavatus

== Latin == === Etymology === Perfect passive participle of cavō (“hollow out, excavate”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kaˈwaː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kaˈvaː.tus] === Participle === cavātus (feminine cavāta, neuter cavātum); first/second-declension participle hollowed out, excavated, hollow, having been hollowed out perforated, pierced, having been pierced ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== cavātiō ==== Descendants ==== → English: cavate Italian: cavato Portuguese: cavado Sicilian: cavatu Spanish: cavado === References === “cavatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cavatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “cavatus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.