cava

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː.və/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːvə

cava (uncountable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Cava, a Catalan white sparkling wine.

Ellipsis of vena cava.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪ.və/

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• Rhymes: -eɪvə

cava (plural cavae or cavas)

1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of vena cava.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑv.ə/, /ˈkeɪ.və/

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cava

1. plural of cavum

cava (countable and uncountable, plural cavas)

1. Alternative form of kava.

• “cava”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “cava”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• AACV, Vaca, vaca

Ultimately from Catalan cava.

• IPA^(key): /kaba/ [ka.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -aba, -a
• Hyphenation: ca‧va

cava inan

1. Cava (wine)

• “cava”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

From Late Latin cava, from Latin cavus (“hollow, concave”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈka.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈka.və]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈka.va]

cava f (plural caves)

1. wine cellar
2. cigar box

cava m (plural caves)

1. cava (wine)

• cova

• “cava”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “cava”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “cava” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cava” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

cava

1. inflection of cavar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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• IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.vaː/

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• Hyphenation: ca‧va
• Rhymes: -aːvaː

cava m (plural cava's, diminutive cavaatje n)

1. Cava

cava

1. what

From Old Galician-Portuguese cava (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): Back-formation from cavar.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɑβɐ]

cava f (plural cavas)

1. (viticulture) digging, hoeing the ground
2. mine, excavation

   Synonym: mina

3. (archaic) basement

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cava”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cava”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “caua”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cava”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cava”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cava”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

cava

1. inflection of cavar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.va/
• Rhymes: -ava
• Hyphenation: cà‧va

cava f sg

1. feminine singular of cavo

From Late Latin cava, substantivized from Latin cava, the feminine of the adjective cavus.

cava f (plural cave)

1. quarry, mine

• → Serbo-Croatian: (dialectal) ка̑ва / kȃva
• → Chakavian Serbo-Croatian: kȏva

cava

1. inflection of cavare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• vaca

• cava: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈka.wa]
• cava: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.va]
• cavā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈka.waː]
• cavā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.va]

See cavus.

cava

1. inflection of cavus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

cavā

1. ablative feminine singular of cavus

Nominalization of cavus, likely by reinterpretation of the plural of the neuter noun cavum as a feminine singular form.

cava f (genitive cavae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) a hollow, hole, cave, pit, cavern

First-declension noun.

See cavum.

cava n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of cavum

cavā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cavō

• "cava", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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cava f (plural cavas)

1. cellar

• Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 44.

• Rhymes: -avɐ, (Northern Portugal) -abɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧va

Either deverbal from cavar, or from Late Latin cava, substantivized from Latin cava, the feminine of the adjective cavus.

cava f (plural cavas)

1. armhole (hole for the arm in clothing)
2. pit (hole dug in the ground)

   Synonyms: vala, buraco, cavouco

3. ellipsis of veia cava (“large vein”)

cava

1. inflection of cavar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

cava

1. feminine singular of cavo

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaba/ [ˈka.β̞a]

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• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: ca‧va

Derived regressively from the verb cavar.

cava f (plural cavas)

1. dig

Inherited from Late Latin cava, substantivized from Latin cava, the feminine of the adjective cavus.

cava f (plural cavas)

1. cave or cellar where certain kinds of wines are processed
2. in a palace, a dependency where the water and wine drunk by royalty is looked after

cava m (plural cavas)

1. sparkling wine

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cava

1. inflection of cavar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cava f

1. feminine singular of cavo

• “cava”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• vaca