caveo

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *kaweō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kowh₁éyeti, an iterative from *(s)kewh₁-. Cognate with Ancient Greek κοέω (koéō), Sanskrit कवि (kaví, “wise, poet, seer, sage”), Lithuanian kavoti (“safeguard, tend”), Russian чу́ять (čújatʹ), Old Armenian ցուցանեմ (cʻucʻanem, “to show”), English show. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈka.we.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkaː.ve.o] === Verb === caveō (present infinitive cavēre, perfect active cāvī, supine cautum); second conjugation to take precautions, beware, take care; to guard against, attend to a thing for a person, provide Synonyms: cūrō, accūrō, servō, videō, cōnsulō, prōcūrō, colō, cōnsultō (with accusative) to beware of, keep away from, avoid (with ablative, with dative, with ab, with cum, with nē, with ut) to guard against, to be on one's guard against, to take care that (not) (imperative) beware not to!, refrain from!, make sure that not, mind that you don't! (with dative) to look out in the interests of (law) to make legal provisions (for or against), to order, decree, stipulate (law) to give surety or guarantees, to secure bail; to pledge, certify (with ab) to procure bail or surety from ==== Usage notes ==== The primary sense ("beware") may either govern a noun in the accusative or a subjunctive clause joined with nē, with the meaning "beware not to, make sure that you don't". However, the latter use became idiomatic early on with the particle nē omitted. In either case, the semantically-weakened cavĕ regularly has a short final vowel through iambic shortening. C.f. the parallel positive vidĕ (“see that, make sure to”). ==== Conjugation ==== 1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cavicare Old French: chuer French: choyer === References === === Further reading === “caveō” on page 315 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012) “caveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “caveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “caveo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.