cavatus

Perfect passive participle of cavō (“hollow out, excavate”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaˈu̯aː.tus/, [käˈu̯äːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈva.tus/, [käˈväːt̪us]

cavātus (feminine cavāta, neuter cavātum); first/second-declension participle

1. hollowed out, excavated, hollow, having been hollowed out
2. perforated, pierced, having been pierced

First/second-declension adjective.

• cavātiō

• English: cavate
• Italian: cavato
• Portuguese: cavado
• Sicilian: cavatu
• Spanish: cavado

• “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.