English

Verb

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

1. (obsolete, done by a panther) Emit a call in the manner 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) in figurative extension
   • 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]

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈkawt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkawt/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkawt/

Adjective

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

1. cautious, careful

Synonyms

• cautelós

Derived terms

• cautament

Related terms

• cautela
• incaut

External links

• “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) Alternative form of chaut