Translation
cave, cavern
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Word origin
From Latin caverna, a hollow, built on cavus ('hollow'). The same root gives English cave, cavity, excavate and concave.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- caverna
- English cognates
- cave, cavity, excavate, concave
Examples
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They found a deep cave in the mountain.
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There was no light in the cave.
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The bear sleeps in the cave through the winter.
English keeps cave and cavern as a plain word and a grand one. Esperanto has just , doing both jobs, so a fox's hole and a limestone system take the same noun. If you want the grandeur back, the affixes are there: o for a vast one, o for a hollow you could crawl into.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 18, lesson 4: kaverno, nervo, intertempe and 7 more words.