See also: Cava, cavá, and ça va

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cava (uncountable)

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

Etymology 2 edit

Ellipsis of vena cava.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cava (plural cavae or cavas)

  1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of vena cava.

Etymology 3 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cava

  1. plural of cavum

Etymology 4 edit

Noun edit

cava (countable and uncountable, plural cavas)

  1. Alternative form of kava

References edit

Anagrams edit

Basque edit

Etymology edit

Ultimately from Catalan cava.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /kaba/ [ka.β̞a]
  • Rhymes: -aba
  • Hyphenation: ca‧va

Noun edit

cava inan

  1. Cava (wine)

Declension edit

Further reading edit

  • "cava" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus

Catalan edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Late Latin cava, from Latin cavus (hollow, concave).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cava f (plural caves)

  1. wine cellar
  2. cigar box

Noun edit

cava m (plural caves)

  1. cava (wine)
Related terms edit

Further reading edit

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

cava

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

Fijian edit

Pronoun edit

cava

  1. what

Galician edit

Etymology 1 edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cava f (plural cavas)

  1. (viticulture) digging, hoeing the ground
  2. mine, excavation
    Synonym: mina
  3. (archaic) basement

References edit

  • 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.

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

cava

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

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

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

Etymology 1 edit

Adjective edit

cava f sg

  1. feminine singular of cavo

Etymology 2 edit

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

Noun edit

cava f (plural cave)

  1. quarry, mine
Descendants edit
  • Serbo-Croatian: (dialectal) ка̑ваkȃva
  • Chakavian Serbo-Croatian: kȏva

Etymology 3 edit

Verb edit

cava

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

Anagrams edit

Latin edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

See cavus.

Adjective edit

cava

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

cavā

  1. ablative feminine singular of cavus

Etymology 2 edit

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

Noun edit

cava f (genitive cavae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cava cavae
Genitive cavae cavārum
Dative cavae cavīs
Accusative cavam cavās
Ablative cavā cavīs
Vocative cava cavae
Descendants edit

Etymology 3 edit

See cavum.

Noun edit

cava n

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of cavum

Etymology 4 edit

Verb edit

cavā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of cavō

References edit

Occitan edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (file)

Noun edit

cava f (plural cavas)

  1. cellar

Further reading edit

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

Portuguese edit

Pronunciation edit

 
 

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

Etymology 1 edit

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

Noun edit

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).

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

cava

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

Etymology 3 edit

Adjective edit

cava

  1. feminine singular of cavo

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

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

Etymology 1 edit

Derived regressively from the verb cavar.

Noun edit

cava f (plural cavas)

  1. dig

Etymology 2 edit

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

Noun edit

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

Noun edit

cava m (plural cavas)

  1. sparkling wine
Related terms edit

Etymology 3 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

cava

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

Etymology 4 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective edit

cava f

  1. feminine singular of cavo

Further reading edit

Anagrams edit