cavatine
French, noun/ka.va.tin/
cavatine is spelled C-A-V-A-T-I-N-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 146,077th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cavatine is a French feminine noun meaning “cavatina” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Air d’opéra, ordinairement assez court, qui n’a ni reprise ni seconde partie”.
What does cavatine mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecavatina
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Air d’opéra, ordinairement assez court, qui n’a ni reprise ni seconde partie.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cavatine
- cavatines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cavatine?
- /ka.va.tin/
- \ka.va.tin\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cavatine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cavatine in French?
cavatine appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).