The corpus record — Latin

caverna

caverna · f

a hollow

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Where it lives

Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 4 · 5.74/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Pharsalia 12 · 2.36/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Carmina 4 · 1.78/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k

Densest 12 of 38 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

căverna — Lewis & Short

căverna, ae, f.cavus,

I a hollow, cavity, cave, cavern, grotto, hole: caverna terrae, Lucr. 6, 597; Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 25; 2, 60, 151: silicum, rocky vaults (of the interior of Aetna), Luc. 6, 683, for which curvae cavernae, Verg. A. 3, 674: imae, Ov. M. 5, 502; 6, 698: caecae, id. ib. 5, 639; 15, 299: navium, the holds of ships, Cic. de Or. 3, 46, 180 Orell. N. cr.: puppis, Luc. 9, 110: aurium loco, Plin. 11, 37, 50, § 137: vasorum fictilium, id. 12, 3, 7, § 16: arboris, clefts, Gell. 15, 16, 3 al.: caeli, the vault of heaven, Lucr. 4, 171; 6, 252; Cic. Arat. 253: aetheriae, Lucr. 4, 391; aëris, Manil. 1, 202; the excrementary canal of animals, Plin. 8, 55, 81, § 218; 28, 8, 27, § 106; 30, 15, 47, § 137; hence, utraque (mulieris), Aus. Epigr. 71, 7.

In the wild

cavernam Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 8.71.15
cavernas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.57
cavernis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 21.12.9
cavernas Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.597
cavernis Seneca, De Beneficiis 7.20.4
cavernis Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.639

6 of 118 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. cauerna (scan p. 132; entry #1959).

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