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The corpus record — Latin

rĕ-căvus

rĕ-căvus · adj

hollow

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What it meant

rĕ-căvus — Lewis & Short

rĕ-căvus, a, um, adj.,

I hollow or arched inward, concave (late Lat.): speculum, Prud. stef, 11, 186: palatum, id. Psych. 421: laquearia, Paul. Nol. Carm. 28, 408.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.