HOLE Copy link • HOLEforamen (any larger or smaller opening bored with a round instrument tapering to a point): cavum (a hole hollowed out in the ground, in a wall, etc.; e.g., a mouse-hole, lion’s den, etc.): rima (a chink): fissura (a cleft, greater crack or chink, perhaps also for a hole in a garment, for which Juv., 3, 150, poetically uses vulnus): lacuna (a gap, space not filled up; e.g., in a pavement): lumen (the opening of a window, of a door, as opposed to the drapery): fenestra (the opening of a window, as opposed to a window-shutter): vulnus (a wound): gurgustium (a wretched dwelling). That has a hole, perforatus (bored through); fissus (cleft, slit up): full of holes, laceratus (tattered, of garments, etc.); foraminosus (full of bored openings; late); rimosus (full of chinks); cribratus (full of holes like a sieve); rarus (porous, like a sponge). To bore a hole, forare (general term, to make a hole in anything): perforare (to make a hole through anything, to bore through): terebrare (to bore with a gimlet or other such instrument): to bore a hole, foramen terebrare or terebra cavare. Hole to creep out of (IMPROP.), rima aliqua (e.g., rimam aliquam reperire, Plaut.). Vid: EXCUSE.