cavamen

Latin

Etymology

From cavō (“I hollow out”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaˈu̯aː.men/, [käˈu̯äːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈva.men/, [käˈväːmen]

Noun

cavāmen n (genitive cavāminis); third declension

1. hollowing out
2. cavern, hollow

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	cavāmen	cavāmina
genitive	cavāminis	cavāminum
dative	cavāminī	cavāminibus
accusative	cavāmen	cavāmina
ablative	cavāmine	cavāminibus
vocative	cavāmen	cavāmina

References

• “cavamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cavamen 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)
• cavamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.