cavetto

1. 1.

   a concave molding shaped like a quarter circle in cross section

   Broadermolding

Other forms of cavetto

plural

cavetti

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cavetto

What does cavetto mean?

cavetto means "a concave molding shaped like a quarter circle in cross section".

How many syllables are in cavetto?

cavetto has 3 syllables: ca-vet-to. The stress falls on "ca".

Is cavetto a common word?

cavetto is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.