cavar

From Latin cavāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kəˈβa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kəˈva]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [kaˈvaɾ]

cavar (first-person singular present cavo, first-person singular preterite caví, past participle cavat)

1. to dig

• excavar
• soscavar

• “cavar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Old Galician-Portuguese cavar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cavāre, present active infinitive of cavō.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈβaɾ/

cavar (first-person singular present cavo, first-person singular preterite cavei, past participle cavado)

1. to dig
2. to hoe
   • 1303, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 150:

     Et dardeſ cada anno quatro dias de ſeara a noſſa graña de Pineyra, ṽn dia a eſcauar, outro a pudar, outro a cauar, outro a rãdar

     You'll give each year four days of work in our farm of Piñeira, one day for digging, another for prunning, another for hoeing, another for weeding

3. to break up

• escavar

• “cavar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cauar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cavar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cavar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “cavar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cavar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “cavar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Occitan, from Latin cavō, cavāre.

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cavar

1. to dig

• escavar

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin cavāre.

cavar (first-person singular present cavo, first-person singular preterite cavei, past participle cavado)

1. to dig, excavate, burrow, scoop

• cava
• escavar

• stgavar (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
• tgavar (Surmiran)
• chaver (Puter)
• chavar (Vallader)

From Latin cavō, cavāre.

cavar

1. (Sursilvan) to dig

Inherited from Latin cavāre.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈbaɾ/ [kaˈβ̞aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ca‧var

cavar (first-person singular present cavo, first-person singular preterite cavé, past participle cavado)

1. (transitive) to excavate, dig
2. (intransitive) to penetrate into

• “cavar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From Latin cavō, cavāre.

cavar

1. (transitive) to take off, take out
2. (transitive) to extract

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• escavar, scavar