cavar

From Latin cavāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kəˈβa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kəˈva]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈvaɾ]

cavar (first-person singular present cavo, first-person singular preterite caví, past participle cavat)

1. to dig

• excavar
• soscavar

• “cavar”, 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

From Old Galician-Portuguese cavar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cavāre.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈβaɾ/

cavar (first-person singular present cavo, first-person singular preterite cavei, past participle cavado)

1. to dig
2. to hoe
   • 1303, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 150:

     Et dardeſ cada anno quatro dias de ſeara a noſſa graña de Pineyra, ṽn dia a eſcauar, outro a pudar, outro a cauar, outro a rãdar

     You'll give each year four days of work in our farm of Piñeira, one day for digging, another for prunning, another for hoeing, another for weeding

3. to break up

• escavar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cavar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cauar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cavar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “cavar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cavar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “cavar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cavar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Occitan, from Latin cavō, cavāre.

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cavar

1. to dig

• escavar

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin cavāre.

cavar (first-person singular present cavo, first-person singular preterite cavei, past participle cavado)

1. to dig, excavate, burrow, scoop

• cava
• escavar

• stgavar (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
• tgavar (Surmiran)
• chaver (Puter)
• chavar (Vallader)

From Latin cavō, cavāre.

cavar

1. (Sursilvan) to dig

Inherited from Latin cavāre.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈbaɾ/ [kaˈβ̞aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ca‧var

cavar (first-person singular present cavo, first-person singular preterite cavé, past participle cavado)

1. (transitive) to excavate, dig
2. (intransitive) to penetrate into

• “cavar”, 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

From Latin cavō, cavāre.

cavar

1. (transitive) to take off, take out
2. (transitive) to extract

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• escavar, scavar