cautus

Latin

Etymology

From past participle stem of cavēre.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkau̯.tus/, [ˈkäu̯t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkau̯.tus/, [ˈkäːu̯t̪us]

Adjective

cautus (feminine cauta, neuter cautum, comparative cautior, superlative cautissimus, adverb cautē or cautim); first/second-declension adjective

1. cautious, careful

   Synonyms: intentus, attentus, intēnsus, ērēctus

   Antonym: incautus

2. circumspect, prudent
3. wary

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cautus	cauta	cautum		cautī	cautae	cauta
Genitive	cautī	cautae	cautī		cautōrum	cautārum	cautōrum
Dative	cautō		cautō		cautīs
Accusative	cautum	cautam	cautum		cautōs	cautās	cauta
Ablative	cautō	cautā	cautō		cautīs
Vocative	caute	cauta	cautum		cautī	cautae	cauta

Descendants

• Friulian: tśot
• Galician: couto
• Old Norman: cault, chault
• Old Occitan: caut
• Portuguese: couto, coito
• Sicilian: cotu
• Spanish: coto
• → Albanian: kujdes
• → Catalan: caut
• → Basque: kautu
• → French: caut (obsolescent)
• → Italian: cauto
• → Portuguese: cauto
• → Spanish: cauto

References

• “cautus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cautus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cautus 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)
• cautus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “cautus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 547