cautela

See also: cautelá

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cautēla (“caution”).

Noun

cautela f (plural cautele)

1. caution, care
2. precaution

Verb

cautela

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

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Latin

Etymology

From caveō (“beware”) +‎ -ēla.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cautēla f (genitive cautēlae); first declension

1. caution
2. vocative singular of cautēla

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

• French: cautèle
  • English: cautel
• Italian: cautela
• Portuguese: cautela
• Spanish: cautela

Noun

(deprecated template usage) cautēlā f

1. ablative singular of cautēla

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.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cautēla (“caution”).

Noun

cautela f (plural cautelas)

1. caution (careful attention, prudence)
2. share (in a lottery)

Synonyms

• cuidado, caução

Derived terms

• cauteleiro

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Noun

cautela f (plural cautelas)

1. caution, care
2. precaution