cautela

See also: cautēla and cautelá

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cautēla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəwˈtɛ.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [kawˈtɛ.la]

Noun

cautela f (plural cauteles)

1. caution, care

   Synonym: cura

Related terms

• caut
• cautelar
• cautelós

 

Further reading

• “cautela” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cautela”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cautela” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cautela” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kawˈtɛ.la/
• Rhymes: -ɛla
• Hyphenation: cau‧tè‧la

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin cautēla (“caution”).

Noun

cautela f (plural cautele)

1. caution, care

   Synonym: prudenza

2. precaution

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cautela

1. inflection of cautelare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• cautela in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From caveō (“beware”) +‎ -ēla.

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Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kau̯ˈteː.la/, [käu̯ˈt̪eːɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kau̯ˈte.la/, [käu̯ˈt̪ɛːlä]

Noun

cautēla f (genitive cautēlae); first declension

1. caution

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cautēla	cautēlae
Genitive	cautēlae	cautēlārum
Dative	cautēlae	cautēlīs
Accusative	cautēlam	cautēlās
Ablative	cautēlā	cautēlīs
Vocative	cautēla	cautēlae

Descendants

• Catalan: cautela
• French: cautèle
  • English: cautel
• Padanian:
  • Emilian:
  • Ligurian:
  • Piedmontese:
  • Romagnol: cautēla, cavtela
• Galician: cautela
• → German: Kautel
• Italian: cautela
• Occitan: cautèla
• → Portuguese: cautela
• Spanish: cautela

References

• “cautela”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cautela in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cautela in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Professor Kidd, et al. Collins Gem Latin Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers (Glasgow: 2004). →ISBN. page 51.

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin cautēla (“caution”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kawˈtɛ.lɐ/ [kaʊ̯ˈtɛ.lɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kawˈtɛ.lɐ/ [kaʊ̯ˈtɛ.lɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kawˈtɛ.la/ [kaʊ̯ˈtɛ.la]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kawˈtɛ.lɐ/

Noun

cautela f (plural cautelas)

1. caution (careful attention, prudence)

   Synonyms: cuidado, caução

2. share (in a lottery)

Derived terms

• acautelar
• cautelar
• cauteleiro

Etymology 2

Verb

cautela

1. inflection of cautelar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kauˈtela/ [kau̯ˈt̪e.la]
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: cau‧te‧la

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish cabtela, borrowed from Latin cautēla (“caution”).

Noun

cautela f (plural cautelas)

1. caution, care, caginess, chariness
2. precaution

   Synonym: precaución

Derived terms

• cautelar
• cauteloso

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cautela

1. inflection of cautelar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “cautela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014