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English
Etymology
Onomatopoeia.
Pronunciation
Verb
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.
- (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
Learned borrowing from Latin cautus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
caut (feminine cauta, masculine plural cauts, feminine plural cautes)
- cautious, careful
- Synonym: cautelós
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Old French
Adjective
caut m (oblique and nominative feminine singular caude)
- (Picardy, Old Northern French) Alternative form of chaut
Old Occitan
Adjective
caut m (feminine singular cauta, masculine plural cauts, feminine plural cautas)
- hot.
Noun
caut m (oblique plural cauts, nominative singular cauts, nominative plural caut)
- heat.
Romanian
Verb
caut
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of căuta