cautio

Latin

Etymology

From caveō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkau̯.ti.oː/, [ˈkäu̯t̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkau̯t.t͡si.o/, [ˈkäu̯t̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

cautiō f (genitive cautiōnis); third declension

1. precaution, caution
2. stipulation, proviso, exception

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cautiō	cautiōnēs
Genitive	cautiōnis	cautiōnum
Dative	cautiōnī	cautiōnibus
Accusative	cautiōnem	cautiōnēs
Ablative	cautiōne	cautiōnibus
Vocative	cautiō	cautiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: caució
• Old French: caution
  • → Middle English: caucioun
    • English: caution
  • French: caution
• German: Kaution
• Gothic: 𐌺𐌰𐍅𐍄𐍃𐌾𐍉 (kawtsjō)
• Italian: cauzione
• → Portuguese: caução
• Romanian: cauțiune
• Spanish: caución

References

• “cautio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cautio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cautio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cautio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cautio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cautio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin