cavatos
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cavo, cavare, cavavi, cavatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Technical
hollow out, make concave/hollow; excavate; cut/pierce through; carve in relief;
acc. pl. perf. pass. part. - Entry →cavatus, cavata -um, cavatior -or -us, cavatissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
hollow, hollow in form; hollowed out, excavated; forming a cave;
acc. pl. (m.)
Examples
Res Gestae II
Caesar Augustus from Res Gestae Divi Augusti
"...Tiberim, in quo loco nunc nemus est Caesarum, cavato [s]olo in longitudinem mille et octingentos pedes..."Res Gestae I
Caesar Augustus from Res Gestae Divi Augusti
"...Tiberim in quo loco nunc nemus est Caesarum, cavato solo in longitudinem mille et octingentos pedes, in latitudinem..."Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...ludibrium verius quam comes, aureum baculum inclusum corneo cavato ad id baculo tulisse donum Apollini dicitur, per ambages..."Liber V
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...stibadio aqua velut expressa cubantium pondere sipunculis effluit, cavato lapide suscipitur, gracili marmore continetur atque ita occulte temperatur..."