caute

From Latin cautus.

caute (comparative plus caute, superlative le plus caute)

1. prudent, cautious

• acute

• IPA^(key): /kaˈu.te/
• Rhymes: -ute
• Hyphenation: ca‧ù‧te

caute

1. feminine plural of cauto

• acute

From cautus (“cautious”) +‎ -ē.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkau̯.teː/, [ˈkäu̯t̪eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkau̯.te/, [ˈkäːu̯t̪e]

cautē (not comparable)

1. cautiously
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Tobit.2.4:

     tollensque illud portavit ad domum suam occulte ut dum sol occubuisset caute sepeliret eum

     And taking it up carried it privately to his house, that after the sun was down, he might bury him cautiously.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkau̯.te/, [ˈkäu̯t̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkau̯.te/, [ˈkäːu̯t̪e]

caute

1. vocative masculine singular of cautus

• “caute”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “caute”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caute in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.u.te/

caute

1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of căuta