cavos
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cavus, cava, cavum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
hollow, excavated, hollowed out; concave; (of waning moon); enveloping; porous;; sunken; deep, having deep channel; tubular; having cavity inside (concealing);
acc. pl. (m.) - Entry →cavus, cavi:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
hole, cavity, depression, pit, opening; cave, burrow; enclosed space; aperture;
acc. pl.nom. sg.
Examples
- T
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...PEN.Licet. MEN. Etiam nunc concede audacter ab leonino cavo. PEN. Eu edepol ne tu, ut ego opinor, esses..." - T
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...spoliis corpus vestire ferarum, sed nemora atque cavos montis silvasque colebant et frutices inter condebant squalida membra verbera..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...committunt, sonabunt; praecipuus tamen erit hiatus earum quae cavo aut patulo maxime ore efferuntur. XXXIV. E planior littera..." 
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...sola nitet flavis Nomadum decisa metallis purpura, sola cavo Phrygiae quam Synnados antro ipse cruentavit maculis lucentibus Attis..."- G
Liber II
Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE
"...timore postquam complevit locum,dolosa tuto condidit sese cavo:inde evagata noctu suspenso pede,ubi esca sese explevit..." - P
Aeneid VIII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...lumine Manes. ergo insperata deprensum luce repente inclusumque cavo saxo atque insueta rudentem desuper Alcides telis premit, omniaque..." - P
Aeneid V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...multa viri nequiquam inter se vulnera iactant, multa cavo lateri ingeminant et pectore vastos dant sonitus, erratque auris..." - P
Aeneid III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...litora, dat signum specula Misenus ab alta aere cavo. invadunt socii et nova proelia temptant, obscenas pelagi ferro..."
