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) (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. (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 === UCTA, ACTU == Catalan == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin cautus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈkawt] Rhymes: -awt === Adjective === caut (feminine cauta, masculine plural cauts, feminine plural cautes) cautious, careful Synonym: cautelós ==== Derived terms ==== cautament ==== Related terms ==== cautela incaut ==== Further reading ==== “caut”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 == Old French == === Adjective === caut m (oblique and nominative feminine singular caude) (Picard, Old Northern French) alternative form of chaut == Old Occitan == === Adjective === caut m (feminine singular cauta, masculine plural cauts, feminine plural cautas) hot. === Noun === caut m (oblique plural cauts, nominative singular cauts, nominative plural caut) heat. == Romanian == === Verb === caut first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of căuta