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căvilla, ae, f. dim. [perh. for calvilla, from calvor; but cf. Sanscr. kava, stingy], a jeering, raillery, scoffing (ante- and postclass., and very rare): aufer cavillam: non ego nunc nugas ago, * Plaut. Aul. 4, 4, 11; Mart. Cap. 4, § 423.
Access. form căvil-lum, i, n., App. M. 1, p. 105; Aur. Vict. Epit. 9; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 46 Müll.
* căvillābundus, a, um, adj. [cavillor], seeking for raillery, scoffing, Tert. Anim. 34 fin.
căvillātĭo, ōnis, f. [cavillor],
- I. a jeering, raillery, scoffing, irony in jest or in earnest: cum duo genera sint facetiarum, alterum aequabiliter in omni sermone fusum, alterum peracutum et breve: illa a veteribus superior cavillatio, haec altera dicacitas nominata est, Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 218: cavillatio est jocosa calumniatio, Paul. ex Fest. p. 45 Müll.; Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 75; id. Truc. 3, 2, 17; Suet. Vesp. 23; Gell. 5, 5, 2: inter consules magis cavillatio quam magna contentio de provinciā fuit, Liv. 42, 32, 1: acerba, Suet. Tib. 57: nominis, id. Gram. 3.
- II. Meton., an empty, sophistical discourse, sophistry (so most freq. in Quint.), Cic. ap. Sen. Ep. 111, 1; cf. Dig. 50, 16, 177: ineptae, Quint. 7, 9, 4: infelix verborum, id. 10, 7, 14; cf. id. 2, 17, 7: manifesta, id. 9, 1, 15: juris, id. 7, 4, 37: sine metu cavillationis, id. 2, 14, 5.
căvillātor (caulāt-, Plaut. Truc. 3, 2, 13), ōris, m. [cavillor],
- I. a jester, jeerer, caviller: facetus, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 46: probus, id. Truc. 3, 2, 15; * Cic. Att. 1, 13, 2; Gell. 4, 20, 3.
- II. Meton., a sophist, Sen. Ep. 102, 20.
căvillātrix, īcis, f. [cavillator, II.] (only twice in Quint.), she who seeks to take by sophistry: conclusio, Quint. 7, 3, 14; hence also sophistry, id. 2, 15, 25.
* căvillātus, ūs, m. [cavillor], raillery, = cavillatio, App. M. 8, p. 213.