The story
- Latin · derived fromcavātus“hollowed out”
- English todaycavate
From Latin cavātus (“hollowed out”), perfect passive participle of cavō (“to hollow out, to excavate”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
cavate
Today it means: A cliffside dwelling made in the living rock by humans. Full definition →
Latin cavātus