cavernous
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From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Late Middle English cavernous, cavernose, borrowing from Old French caverneux or Latin cavernōsus (“full of hollows or cavities”), from caverna (“a hollow, cavity, cave”) + -ōsus (“-ous, -ose”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to cavern + -ous.
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cavernous (comparative more cavernous, superlative most cavernous)
From Old French caverneux or Latin cavernōsus (“full of hollows or cavities”); equivalent to caverne + -ous.
cavernous (Late Middle English, literary)
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