Noun: cavate
| Singular | cavate |
| Plural | cavates |
Sample Sentences
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Given the absence of other means of dating the cavates, ceramic dating was the focus of the data collection, but we also recorded vessel form. [1995, Peter McKenna, Analysis of Surface Ceramics From the Study Area:]
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The reader may wonder about the significance of the Ahuitzotl figure in a cavate near Los Alamos National Laboratory. [2010, Allan MacGillivray III, The Venus Calendar Observatory at Aztec New Mexico, page 135:]
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While the cavate was originally carved out generations, if not centuries, before 1680, the ceramics associated with its final substantial occupation (including Kapo Black, Tewa Polychrome, and Glaze F pottery) have led investigators to conclude that Pueblo people reoccupied it sometime between 1680 and 1700. [2012, Matthew Liebmann, Revolt: An Archaeological History of Pueblo Resistance and Revitalization in 17th Century New Mexico, page 140:]
Nouns inflected like cavate
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin cavātus (“hollowed out”), perfect passive participle of cavō (“to hollow out, to excavate”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix). See: Latin Nouns '
cavātus'.