cave · noun, verb1
- Latin · derived fromcava“cavity”
- Old French · derived fromcave
- Middle English · inherited fromcave
- English todaycave
From Middle English cave, borrowed from Old French cave, from Latin cava (“cavity”), from cavus (“hollow”). Cognate with Tocharian B kor (“throat”), Albanian cup (“odd, uneven”), Ancient Greek κύαρ (kúar, “eye of needle, earhole”), Old Armenian սոր (sor, “hole”), Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya, “empty, barren, zero”). Displaced native Old English sċræf. More at cavum, cavus and cage.
cave · interjection2
- Latin · learned borrowing fromcavē
- English todaycave
Learned borrowing from Latin cavē, second-person singular present active imperative of caveō (“to beware”). Used at Eton College, Berkshire.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.