caut
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôt, IPA(key): /kɔːt/
- Rhymes: -ɔːt
Verb edit
caut (third-person singular simple present cauteth, present participle cauting, simple past and past participle cauted)
- (obsolete) To emit the characteristic call of a panther.
- 1688, Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory, or A Storehouse of Armory and Blazon, volume 2, page 134, column 2
- A Panther Cauteth, which word is taken from the sound of his voice.
- 1688, Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory, or A Storehouse of Armory and Blazon, volume 2, page 134, column 2
- (obsolete, by extension, figurative) To make a noise similar to the call of a panther.
- 1722 May 2nd, Ebenezer Elliston, “The Laſt Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezer Elliſton” in Miſcellanies (ed. Jonathan Swift, pub. 1751, volume nine, fifth edition), pages 19–20
- If I have done Service to Men in what I have ſaid, I ſhall hope I have done Service to God; and that will be better than a ſilly Speech made for me, full of whining and cauting, which I utterly deſpiſe, and have never been uſed to; yet ſuch a one I expect to have my Ears tormented with, as I am paſſing along the Streets[.]
- 1722 May 2nd, Ebenezer Elliston, “The Laſt Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezer Elliſton” in Miſcellanies (ed. Jonathan Swift, pub. 1751, volume nine, fifth edition), pages 19–20
References edit
- “†caut, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin cautus.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
caut (feminine cauta, masculine plural cauts, feminine plural cautes)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “caut” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Old French edit
Adjective edit
caut m (oblique and nominative feminine singular caude)
- (Picardy, Old Northern French) Alternative form of chaut
Old Occitan edit
Adjective edit
caut m (feminine singular cauta, masculine plural cauts, feminine plural cautas)
- hot.
Noun edit
caut m (oblique plural cauts, nominative singular cauts, nominative plural caut)
- heat.
Romanian edit
Verb edit
caut