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caut

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Onomatopoeia.

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caut (third-person singular simple present cauteth, present participle cauting, simple past and past participle cauted)

  1. (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.
  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[.]

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin cautus.

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caut (feminine cauta, masculine plural cauts, feminine plural cautes)

  1. cautious, careful
    Synonym: cautelós

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Old French

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Adjective

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caut m (oblique and nominative feminine singular caude)

  1. (Picardy, Old Northern French) Alternative form of chaut

Old Occitan

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Adjective

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caut m (feminine singular cauta, masculine plural cauts, feminine plural cautas)

  1. hot.

Noun

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caut m (oblique plural cauts, nominative singular cauts, nominative plural caut)

  1. heat.

Romanian

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Verb

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caut

  1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of căuta
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