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English

Etymology 1

Noun

cava (uncountable)

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

Etymology 2

Noun

cava (plural cavae or cavas)

1. (anatomy) The vena cava.

Etymology 3

Noun

cava

1. plural of cavum

Anagrams

• AACV, Vaca, vaca

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin cavus (“hollow, concave”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?ka.v?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?ka.b?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ka.va/

Noun

cava f (plural caves)

1. wine cellar
2. cigar box

Noun

cava m (plural caves)

1. cava (wine)

Further reading

• “cava” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cava” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “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.

Fijian

Pronoun

cava

1. what

Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

cava f sg

1. feminine singular of cavo

Etymology 2

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

Noun

cava f (plural cave)

1. quarry, mine

Etymology 3

Verb

cava

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

Anagrams

• vaca

Latin

Adjective

cava

1. nominative feminine singular of cavus
2. nominative neuter plural of cavus
3. accusative neuter plural of cavus
4. vocative feminine singular of cavus
5. vocative neuter plural of cavus

Adjective

cav?

1. ablative feminine singular of cavus

Verb

cav?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cav?

References

• cava in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Occitan

Noun

cava f (plural cavas)

1. cellar

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Brazil, Portugal) IPA^(key): /?ka.v?/
• Rhymes: -av?

Noun

cava f (plural cavas)

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

   Synonyms: vala, buraco, cavouco

3. Short for veia cava (“large vein”).

Verb

cava

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of cavar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of cavar

Adjective

cava

1. feminine singular of cavo

Spanish

Etymology 1

Derived regressively from the verb cavar.

Noun

cava f (plural cavas)

1. dig

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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

Noun

cava m (plural cavas)

1. sparkling wine

Related terms

• cavar
• caverna
• cavo
• cueva

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

cava

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of cavar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of cavar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of cavar.

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

cava

1. feminine singular of cavo

Anagrams

• vaca

English

Etymology

Blend of camel +? llama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??m?/
• Rhymes: -??m?
• Homophone: comma (accents with the father-bother merger), karma (nonrhotic accents)

Noun

cama (plural camas)

1. A hybrid animal produced by breeding a camel and a llama.

Anagrams

• AACM, ACMA, MCAA, maca

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin cama.

Noun

cama f (plural cames)

1. bed (piece of furniture)

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin gamba (“horse's hock”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kamp?, “bend”). Doublet of gamba.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ka.m?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ka.ma/

Noun

cama f (plural cames)

1. leg

   Synonym: gamba

French

Pronunciation

Verb

cama

1. third-person singular past historic of camer

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician / Old Portuguese cama, from Late Latin cama (6th century, Isidorus of Seville), probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?m?]

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. bed
   • 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127:

     Iten, mando mays á dita Contança Gonçales, miña muller, a quarta parte da adega dos Vrancos, por quanto eu e ela conpramos a metade da dita adega a Meen Suares Galinato, e mándolle mays a cuba en que teño o viño branco e mays outras duas cubas que son dentro ena dita adega aa maao esquerda, vasyas, que teñen cada una doze moyos de lagar, e mays lle mando una cama de roupa con quatro cabeçaás e un colchón e un almadraque e con suas sabaas e media duzia d'almofadas e con hua manta de picote, e se ouver em casa un par de colchas, que aja ela una delas.

     Item, I devise said Constanza González, my wife, a fourth of the wine cellar of Os Brancos, since we both bought a half of it from Men Suarez Galiñato; and I also bequeath a cask in which I have the white wine, and also two other casks that are inside that wine cellar, on the left, empty, each one having twelve modii; and also bequeath to her a clothed bed with four pillows and a mattress and a mat, and with its sheets and half a dozen cushions and a blanket of coarse linen, and if there is in the house a pair of quilts, she should have one of them

   Synonym: leito

2. platform of a cart
3. garden plot

References

• “cama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cama” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cama” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cama” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kam??/

Adjective

cama

1. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural of cam

Mutation

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from Ancient Greek ????? (khamaí) (close to the ground) as Isidorus said: "Cama est brevis [lectus] et circa terram; Graeci enim ????? breve dicunt" (Cama is a little [bed] close to the ground; the Greeks call ????? to small things). Other etymologies can include Celtic (Gaulish) or Iberian origin.

Noun

cama f (genitive camae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) bed
   • ca. 600, Isidorus Hispalensis [Isidore of Seville], Etymologiae, 19, 22, 29 & 20, 11, 2. In: Isidori Hispalensis episcopi etymologiarum sive originum libri XX. Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit W. M. Linday. Tomus II libros XI–XX continens, Oxonium, 1911:

     Camisias vocari quod in his dormimus in camis, id est in stratis nostris.

     Cama est brevis et circa terram; Graeci enim ????? breve dicunt.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Portuguese: cama
  • ? Chichewa: kama
  • ? Kabuverdianu: kama
• Spanish: cama
  • ? Bikol Central: kama
  • ? Maranao: kama
  • ? Tagalog: kama

Further reading

• cama in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cama in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Old Irish

Adjective

cama

1. Alternative spelling of camma

Mutation

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.ma/

Noun

cama f

1. bed

Descendants

• Galician: cama
• Portuguese: cama

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin camba, itself from From Ancient Greek ????? (kamp?). Eventually lost, likely due to homophony with cama (“bed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kama]

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. leg, thigh

References

• Fulk, Randal C. 1980. Old Spanish ''tiesta'' and ''cama''. Romance Notes 20. 441–447.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cama, from Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?k?.m?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?k?.m?/, [?k??.m?]
• Hyphenation: ca?ma
• Rhymes: -ama

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

2. bed (furniture for sleeping on)

   Synonyms: leito, ninho

Derived terms

• saco-cama

See also

• quarto

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kama/, [?ka.ma]

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. bed

   Synonym: (less common) lecho

Derived terms

Further reading

• “cama” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.