# cava
## English
### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɑː.və/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːvə

#### Noun

cava (uncountable)
* Alternative letter-case form of Cava, a Catalan white sparkling wine.

### Etymology 2

Ellipsis of vena cava.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkeɪ.və/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪvə

#### Noun

cava (plural cavae or cavas)
* (anatomy) Ellipsis of vena cava.

##### Derived terms

* caval
* cavogram
* postcava
* praecava

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈkɑv.ə/, /ˈkeɪ.və/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

#### Noun

cava
* plural of cavum

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

cava (countable and uncountable, plural cavas)
* Alternative form of kava

### References

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

### Anagrams

* AACV, Vaca, vaca

## Basque
### Etymology

Ultimately from Catalan cava.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaba/ [ka.β̞a]
* Rhymes: -aba, -a
* Hyphenation: ca‧va

### Noun

cava inan
* Cava (wine)

#### Declension
### Further reading

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

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈka.βə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈka.və]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈka.va]

#### Noun

cava f (plural caves)
* wine cellar
* cigar box

#### Noun

cava m (plural caves)
* cava (wine)

##### Related terms

* cova

#### 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, 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.

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

cava
* inflection of cavar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Dutch
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkaː.vaː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ca‧va
* Rhymes: -aːvaː

### Noun

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

## Fijian
### Pronoun

cava
* what

## Galician
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkɑβɐ]

#### Noun

cava f (plural cavas)
* (viticulture) digging, hoeing the ground
* mine, excavation
    Synonym: mina
* (archaic) basement

#### References

* 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

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

cava
* inflection of cavar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈka.va/
* Rhymes: -ava
* Hyphenation: cà‧va

### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

cava f sg
* 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)
* quarry, mine

##### Descendants

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

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

cava
* inflection of cavare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* vaca

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* cava: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈka.u̯a/, [ˈkäu̯ä]
* cava: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈka.va/, [ˈkäːvä]
* cavā: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈka.u̯aː/, [ˈkäu̯äː]
* cavā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈka.va/, [ˈkäːvä]

### Etymology 1

See cavus.

#### Adjective

cava
* inflection of cavus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

#### Adjective

cavā
* ablative feminine singular of cavus

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

cava f (genitive cavae); first declension
* (Late Latin) a hollow, hole, cave, pit, cavern

##### Inflection

First-declension noun.

##### Descendants

* Asturian: cueva
* Catalan: cava, cova
* → Old French: cave
** → English: cave
** French: cave
*** → Portuguese: cave
* Old Galician-Portuguese: cova
** Galician: cova
** Portuguese: cova
* Sicilian: cava
* Spanish: cueva
* ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cavula
** Aromanian: gavrã
** Megleno-Romanian: gaură
** Romanian: gaură

### Etymology 3

See cavum.

#### Noun

cava n
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of cavum

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

cavā
* second-person singular present active imperative of cavō

### References

* "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)

## Occitan
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

cava f (plural cavas)
* cellar

### Further reading

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

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈka.vɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈka.vɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈka.va/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈka.vɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈka.vɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈka.bɐ/ [ˈka.βɐ]
* Rhymes: -avɐ, (Northern Portugal) -abɐ
* Hyphenation: ca‧va

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

cava f (plural cavas)
* armhole (hole for the arm in clothing)
* pit (hole dug in the ground)
    Synonyms: vala, buraco, cavouco
* Ellipsis of veia cava (“large vein”).

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

cava
* inflection of cavar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Etymology 3
#### Adjective

cava
* feminine singular of cavo

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkaba/ [ˈka.β̞a]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -aba
* Syllabification: ca‧va

### Etymology 1

Derived regressively from the verb cavar.

#### Noun

cava f (plural cavas)
* dig

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

cava f (plural cavas)
* cave or cellar where certain kinds of wines are processed
* in a palace, a dependency where the water and wine drunk by royalty is looked after

#### Noun

cava m (plural cavas)
* sparkling wine

##### Related terms

* cavar
* caverna
* cavo
* cueva

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cava
* inflection of cavar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

cava f
* feminine singular of cavo

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10

### Anagrams

* vaca