cautum

Latin

Etymology

Substantivisation of cautus (“protected, guaranteed, stipulated”), past participle of caveō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkau̯.tum/, [ˈkäu̯t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkau̯.tum/, [ˈkäːu̯t̪um]

Noun

cautum n (genitive cautī); second declension

1. (chiefly in the plural) provisions (of a law)
2. (Medieval Latin) protected territory, district subject to an immunity

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	cautum	cauta
genitive	cautī	cautōrum
dative	cautō	cautīs
accusative	cautum	cauta
ablative	cautō	cautīs
vocative	cautum	cauta

Adjective

cautum

1. inflection of cautus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

References

• cautum 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)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “cautum”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 161