troglodīts

Via other Euroepan languages, ultimately borrowed from Latin trōglodyta (“cave dwelling people”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek τρωγλοδύτης (trōglodútēs, “one who dwells in holes”), from τρώγλη (trṓglē, “hole”) and δύω (dúō, “I get into”).

troglodīts m (1st declension)

1. troglodyte, caveman (member of an ancient human species that supposedly lived in caves)

   troglodīts ir aizvēsturisks alu cilvēks ― a troglodyte is a prehistoric caveman

• alu cilvēks