cavo

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

cavo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cavar

cavo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cavar

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.vo/
• Rhymes: -avo
• Hyphenation: 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, ultimately from Latin capulum.

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 Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈka.woː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.vo]

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

1. to make hollow, hollow out, excavate
2. to 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^[2], 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

Inherited 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025