cavetto

[ kuh-vet-oh; Italian kah-vet-taw ]

noun,plural ca·vet·tos, ca·vet·ti [kuh-vet-ee; Italian kah-vet-tee], /kəˈvɛt i; Italian kɑˈvɛt ti/, Architecture.
  1. a concave molding the outline of which is a quarter circle.

Origin of cavetto

1
1670–80; <Italian, equivalent to cav(o) (<Latin cavus or cavum hollow place; see cave) + -etto-et

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cavetto

/ (kəˈvɛtəʊ, Italian kaˈvetto) /


nounplural -ti (-tɪ, Italian -ti)
  1. architect a concave moulding, shaped to a quarter circle in cross section

Origin of cavetto

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C17: from Italian, from cavo hollow, from Latin cavus

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