The story
- Late Latin · derived fromcaveola
- New Latin · learned borrowing fromcaveola
- English todaycaveola
Learned borrowing from New Latin caveola, constructed from cavea (“hollow, cavity; cage”) + -ola (diminutive suffix). Doublet of jail, which is from Late Latin caveola, an earlier, natural formation of the same term. More at cave, cavum, cava and cage.
Words from the same roots
Late Latincaveola all →
gaolcajole
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.