cava

cava is a Latin form of cavus, meaning “hollow, concave”. It is the ablative singular feminine adjective or nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 127 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.137: … iecoris confluunt ad quas omnes eius viae pertinent; per quas lapsus cibus in hoc ipso loco in eam venam quae cava appellatur confunditur perque eam ad cor confectus iam coctusque perlabitur; a corde autem in totum corpus di …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.335: iam revocare dato. Cava bucina sumitur illi,

Propertius, Elegiae 4.6.50: tigna caua et pictos experiere metus.

All forms of cavus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.