cautum
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Substantivisation of cautus (“protected, guaranteed, stipulated”), past participle of caveō.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkau̯.tum/, [ˈkäu̯t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkau̯.tum/, [ˈkäːu̯t̪um]
Noun[edit]
cautum n (genitive cautī); second declension
- (chiefly in the plural) provisions (of a law)
- (Medieval Latin) protected territory, district subject to an immunity
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cautum | cauta |
Genitive | cautī | cautōrum |
Dative | cautō | cautīs |
Accusative | cautum | cauta |
Ablative | cautō | cautīs |
Vocative | cautum | cauta |
Adjective[edit]
cautum
- inflection of cautus:
References[edit]
- cautum 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)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “cautum”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 161