hollow out, make concave/hollow; excavate; cut/pierce through
Latin word, found 59 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Georgics 1.136: Tunc alnos primum fluvii sensere cavatas;
Vergil, Aeneid 1.310: Classem in convexo nemorum sub rupe cavata
Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.130: ense petens parmam gladio galeamque cavari
All forms of cavo