caution
/ˈkɒʃən/KO-shuhn
/ˈkɑʃən/KAH-shuhn
Meaningheed
Common meaning: care to avoid danger
- cauttake heed, keep watchLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 305 · scan
- ionnoun ending: act or result
Journey through time
- Aryan root · reconstructed√SKAW‘look, see, perceive, beware of’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 410, p. 744 · scan
- Latincaveō, cāvī, cautum‘take heed, keep watch’
- Frenchcaution
- Middle Englishcaucionsource
- Englishcaution‘care to avoid danger’ · today
caut also in: caveatprecaution
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin caveō ‘take heed, keep watch’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry caveō, p. 305 · dictionary scan
Roots
- caveō, cāvī, cautum Latin “take heed, keep watch”
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