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caveae

caveae is the plural of cavea.

Meaning of cavea

Noun

cavea (plural caveae or caveas)

  1. The seating section of a Greek or Roman theatre or amphitheatre.
    • Vitruvius, in writing that colonnades are desirable above theatres, is thinking of late Asiatic and Roman caveas; […]1895, The Annual of the British School at Athens, number 45, page 42

Origin of caveae

Learned borrowing from Latin caveae.

Questions about caveae

What is caveae the plural of?
Caveae is the plural of cavea.

Words near caveae in the dictionary

  1. cave-paintings
  2. cavea
  3. caveach
  4. caveached
  5. caveaching
  6. caveae
  7. caveas
  8. caveat
  9. caveat emptor
  10. caveat lector
  11. caveat loan

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