cavaedium

English

Etymology

Latin cavaedium

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kə.ˈviː.di.əm/
• Hyphenation: ca‧vae‧di‧um

Noun

cavaedium (plural cavaedia)

1. (architecture) The central hall or court within an Ancient Roman house.

Synonyms

• atrium

Latin

Etymology

Contraction of cavum aedium (literally “the hollow of the house”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaˈu̯ae̯.di.um/, [käˈu̯äe̯d̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈve.di.um/, [käˈvɛːd̪ium]

Noun

cavaedium n (genitive cavaediī or cavaedī); second declension

1. (architecture) cavaedium, atrium, central hall

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cavaedium	cavaedia
Genitive	cavaediī cavaedī1	cavaediōrum
Dative	cavaediō	cavaediīs
Accusative	cavaedium	cavaedia
Ablative	cavaediō	cavaediīs
Vocative	cavaedium	cavaedia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• English: cavaedium
• Italian: cavedio

References

• “cavaedium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cavaedium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.