caute Latin · revision 32542

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *kouh₁-éye-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkau̯.teː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkaːu̯.te]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cautē''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|cautus|-ē|t1=cautious]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|cautus]] is the past participle of [[m|la|caveō|t=to beware]]; de Vaan derives it from [[itc-pro|*kawitos]] and the verb from [[ine-pro|*kouh₁-éye-|t=to perceive]].^(de Vaan 2008) He compares [[sa|आकुवते|tr=ā-kuváte|t=intends]] and [[grc|κοέω|tr=koéō|t=to perceive, understand]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus.^(Köbler 2010) The OLD's first quotation is from Lucilius, of deceiving without danger to oneself.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means with precautions, carefully, and also without risk: Cicero writes that something was all he could safely put in a letter.^(OLD 2012) The comparative ⟨cautius⟩ and the superlative ⟨cautissimē⟩ are found.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it carefully, circumspectly.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius of doing something without risk.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of what can safely be written.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|cautiously|alt=Cautiously]], with precautions, [[m|en|circumspectly]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Without risk or danger.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cautus]]

+ * [[caveo|alt=caveō]]

+ * [[cautio|alt=cautiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}