köken: Borrowed from Catalan gruta, itself borrowed from Sicilian grutta or old Neapolitan grutta, from Vulgar Latin *grupta or *crupta, from Latin crypta. Doublet of cripta.
köken: Borrowed directly from Italian grotta or indirectly via French grotte, from Latin crypta, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós). Doublet of crypte, krocht, and gruft.
köken: Borrowed from Catalan gruta, itself borrowed from Sicilian and Old Neapolitan grutta, from Vulgar Latin *grupta or *crupta, from Latin crypta. Doublet of cripta.
a hollow, cavity, cave, cavern, grotto, hole · a vault, chamber, cleft of heaven · a hold (cargo compartment of a ship)
çekim: çoğul cavernae · tamlayan cavernae
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *ḱowh₁ós? Proto-Italic *kawos Latin cavus Latin -erna Latin caverna From cavus (“hollow, excavated, concave”) + -erna.
aile: cavernātim, cavernō, cavernōsus, cavernula
striduntque cauernis / stricturae Chalybum et fornacibus ignis anhelat
Vae rubeo draconi; nam exterminatio eius festinat. Cavernas ipsius occupabit albus draco, qui Saxones quos invitasti significat.
Crispa tamen cunctas exercet corpore in uno: deglubit, fellat, molitur per utramque cavernam, ne quid inexpertum frustra moritura relinquat.
grotto, cave · hole or landslide caused by a flood
çekim: çoğul grutas
köken: Attested in 1401 as a place name ("rua da Grota"). Perhaps borrowed from Catalan gruta, itself borrowed from Sicilian grutta or old Neapolitan grutta, from Vulgar Latin *grupta or *crupta, from Latin crypta. Doublet of cripta.
Borrowed from Italian grotta, from Vulgar Latin *grupta or *crupta, from Latin crypta, from Ancient Greek κρυπτή (kruptḗ), feminine form of the adjective κρυπτός (kruptós).