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cava

See also: Cava, cavá, cavâ, and ça va

English

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Etymology 1

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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Noun

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cava (uncountable)

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

Etymology 2

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Ellipsis of vena cava.

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cava (plural cavae or cavas)

  1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of vena cava.
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Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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cava

  1. plural of cavum

Etymology 4

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Noun

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cava (countable and uncountable, plural cavas)

  1. Alternative form of kava

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Basque

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Catalan cava.

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

Noun

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cava inan

  1. Cava (wine)

Declension

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Declension of cava (inanimate, ending in -a)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive cava cava cavak
ergative cavak cavak cavek
dative cavari cavari cavei
genitive cavaren cavaren caven
comitative cavarekin cavarekin cavekin
causative cavarengatik cavarengatik cavengatik
benefactive cavarentzat cavarentzat caventzat
instrumental cavaz cavaz cavez
inessive cavatan cavan cavetan
locative cavatako cavako cavetako
allative cavatara cavara cavetara
terminative cavataraino cavaraino cavetaraino
directive cavatarantz cavarantz cavetarantz
destinative cavatarako cavarako cavetarako
ablative cavatatik cavatik cavetatik
partitive cavarik — —
prolative cavatzat — —

Further reading

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  • “cava”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia

Catalan

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Etymology 1

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

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cava f (plural caves)

  1. wine cellar
  2. cigar box

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cava m (plural caves)

  1. cava (wine)
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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cava

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

Dutch

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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cava m (plural cava's, diminutive cavaatje n)

  1. Cava

Fijian

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Pronoun

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cava

  1. what

Galician

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Etymology 1

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

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cava f (plural cavas)

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

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Etymology 2

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cava

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

Italian

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Pronunciation

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

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Adjective

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cava f sg

  1. feminine singular of cavo

Etymology 2

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

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cava f (plural cave)

  1. quarry, mine
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  • → Serbo-Croatian: (dialectal) ка̑ва／kȃva
  • → Chakavian Serbo-Croatian: kȏva

Etymology 3

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Verb

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cava

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

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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See cavus.

Adjective

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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

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

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cava f (genitive cavae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) a hollow, hole, cave, pit, cavern
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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cava cavae
Genitive cavae cavārum
Dative cavae cavīs
Accusative cavam cavās
Ablative cavā cavīs
Vocative cava cavae
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Etymology 3

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See cavum.

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cava n

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of cavum

Etymology 4

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Verb

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cavā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of cavō

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Occitan

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cava f (plural cavas)

  1. cellar

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

Portuguese

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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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

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Verb

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cava

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

Etymology 3

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Adjective

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cava

  1. feminine singular of cavo

Spanish

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Etymology 1

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Derived regressively from the verb cavar.

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cava f (plural cavas)

  1. dig

Etymology 2

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

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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

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cava m (plural cavas)

  1. sparkling wine
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Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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cava

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

Etymology 4

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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cava f

  1. feminine singular of cavo

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