caut
English
Etymology
Onomatopoeia.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôt, IPA(key): /kɔːt/
Verb
caut (third-person singular simple present cauteth, present participle cauting, simple past and past participle cauted)
- (obsolete, done by a panther) Emit a call in the manner 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.
- 1688, Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory, or A Storehouse of Armory and Blazon, volume 2, page 134, column 2
- (obsolete) in figurative extension
- 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[.]
- 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
References
- “†caut, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]
Anagrams
- ACTU
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈkawt/
- Rhymes: -awt
Adjective
caut (feminine cauta, masculine plural cauts, feminine plural cautes)
- cautious, careful
Synonyms
- cautelós
Derived terms
- cautament
Related terms
- cautela
- incaut
Further reading
- “caut” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Old French
Adjective
caut m (oblique and nominative feminine singular caude)
- (Picardy) Alternative form of chaut
Romanian
Verb
caut
- first-person singular present indicative of căuta
- first-person singular present subjunctive of căuta