cave
Portuguese, noun/ˈka.vi/
cave is spelled C-A-V-E (4 letters) and appears 2.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 17,722nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cave is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “cellar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of cavar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pavimento de uma casa abaixo do leito da rua”.
What does cave mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecellar
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pavimento de uma casa abaixo do leito da rua 2. adega; frasqueira
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cave
- caves plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cave?
- Brazil /ˈka.vi/
- Portugal /ˈka.vɨ/
- Portugal /ˈka.bɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cave
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cave in Portuguese?
cave appears 2.9 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).