The story
- Latin · derived fromcavus
- Italian · borrowed fromcavetto
- English todaycavetto
From Italian cavetto, from cavo (“hollow”), from Latin cavus.
Words from the same roots
Latincavus all →
gabioncavus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
cavetto
Today it means: A concave moulding with a regular curved profile that is part of a circle. Full definition →
Italian cavetto ← Latin cavus