caut

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeia.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôt, IPA^(key): /kɔːt/
• Rhymes: -ɔːt

Verb

caut (third-person singular simple present cauteth, present participle cauting, simple past and past participle cauted)

1. (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.

2. (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[.]

References

• “†caut, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]

Anagrams

• ACTU

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cautus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈkawt]
• Rhymes: -awt

Adjective

caut (feminine cauta, masculine plural cauts, feminine plural cautes)

1. cautious, careful

   Synonym: 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)

1. (Picardy, Old Northern French) Alternative form of chaut

Old Occitan

Adjective

caut m (feminine singular cauta, masculine plural cauts, feminine plural cautas)

1. hot.

Noun

caut m (oblique plural cauts, nominative singular cauts, nominative plural caut)

1. heat.

Romanian

Verb

caut

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of căuta