HOLLOW Copy link • HOLLOW 1. adj., cavus (both “hollow” and “hollowed out”): concavus (concave; opposed to gibbus). Hollow teeth, dentes concavi (naturally; e.g., the tusks of a boar; opposed to dentes solidi); dentes exesi (decayed; opposed to integri): hollow eyes, lumina cava (†); oculi concavi: hollow cheeks, genae concavae (†). Of sound, obtusus (opposed to clarus): fuscus (opposed to candidus; also, of voice). False, unreal, falsus: fictus: simulatus: fallax: fucatus: fucosus (opposed to sincerus, probus; e.g., friendship). 2. s. cavum (general term): recessus cavus (hollow recess; deep hollow; e.g., of the situation of the chameleon’s eyes, Plin.): strix: canalis (fluted hollow on a pillar, etc.). A little hollow, cavernula (Plin.). The hollow of the hand, vola (the natural hollow; also of the foot); manus cava or concava (as made; opposed to manus plana; e.g., in “to scoop up water in the hollow of one’s hand”): the hollow of a tree, exesae arboris truncus. 3. v. cavare: excavare: exedere (to eat away; of time making a tree hollow, etc.).