cava

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː.və/
• Rhymes: -ɑːvə

cava (uncountable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Cava, a Catalan white sparkling wine.

Ellipsis of vena cava.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪ.və/
• Rhymes: -eɪvə

cava (plural cavae or cavas)

1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of vena cava..

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑv.ə/, /ˈkeɪ.və/

cava

1. plural of cavum

• “cava”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “cava”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

• AACV, Vaca, vaca

From Latin cavus (“hollow, concave”).

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈka.və/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈka.bə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.va/

cava f (plural caves)

1. wine cellar
2. cigar box

cava m (plural caves)

1. cava (wine)

• cova

• “cava” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cava”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “cava” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cava” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

cava

1. what

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cava (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): Back-formation from cavar.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɑβɐ]

cava f (plural cavas)

1. (viticulture) digging, hoeing the ground
2. mine, excavation

   Synonym: mina

3. (archaic) basement

• “cava” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cava” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “caua” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cava” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cava” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cava” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.va/
• Rhymes: -ava
• Hyphenation: cà‧va

cava f sg

1. feminine singular of cavo

From Late Latin cava, substantivized from Latin cava, the feminine of the adjective cavus.

cava f (plural cave)

1. quarry, mine

cava

1. inflection of cavare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• vaca

• cava: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.u̯a/, [ˈkäu̯ä]
• cava: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.va/, [ˈkäːvä]
• cavā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.u̯aː/, [ˈkäu̯äː]
• cavā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.va/, [ˈkäːvä]

See cavus.

cava

1. inflection of cavus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

cavā

1. ablative feminine singular of cavus

Nominalization of cavus, likely by reinterpretation of the plural of the neuter noun cavum as a feminine singular form.

cava f (genitive cavae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) a hollow, hole, cave, pit, cavern

First-declension noun.

• → French: cave

See cavum.

cava n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of cavum

cavā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cavō

• cava 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)

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cava f (plural cavas)

1. cellar

• Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 44.

• Rhymes: -avɐ, (Northern Portugal) -abɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧va

Either deverbal from cavar, or from Late Latin cava, substantivized from Latin cava, the feminine of the adjective cavus.

cava f (plural cavas)

1. armhole (hole for the arm in clothing)
2. pit (hole dug in the ground)

   Synonyms: vala, buraco, cavouco

3. Ellipsis of veia cava (“large vein”).

cava

1. inflection of cavar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

cava

1. feminine singular of cavo

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaba/ [ˈka.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: ca‧va

Derived regressively from the verb cavar.

cava f (plural cavas)

1. dig

From Late Latin cava, substantivized from Latin cava, the feminine of the adjective cavus.

cava f (plural cavas)

1. cave or cellar where certain kinds of wines are processed
2. in a palace, a dependency where the water and wine drunk by royalty is looked after

cava m (plural cavas)

1. sparkling wine

• cavar
• caverna
• cavo
• cueva

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cava

1. inflection of cavar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cava f

1. feminine singular of cavo

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

• vaca