cautela

Borrowed from Latin cautēla.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəwˈtɛ.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kawˈtɛ.la]

cautela f (plural cauteles)

1. caution, care

   Synonym: cura

• “cautela”, 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
• “cautela”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “cautela” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cautela” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /kawˈtɛ.la/
• Rhymes: -ɛla
• Hyphenation: cau‧tè‧la

Borrowed from Latin cautēla (“caution”).

cautela f (plural cautele)

1. caution, care

   Synonym: prudenza

2. precaution

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cautela

1. inflection of cautelare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• cautela in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From caveō (“beware”) +‎ -ēla.

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kau̯ˈteː.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kau̯ˈt̪ɛː.la]

cautēla f (genitive cautēlae); first declension

1. caution

First-declension noun.

• “cautela”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "cautela", 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)
• cautela in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Professor Kidd, et al. Collins Gem Latin Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers (Glasgow: 2004). →ISBN. page 51.

Learned borrowing from Latin cautēla (“caution”).

cautela f (plural cautelas)

1. caution (careful attention, prudence)

   Synonyms: cuidado, caução

2. share (in a lottery)

cautela

1. inflection of cautelar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /kauˈtela/ [kau̯ˈt̪e.la]
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: cau‧te‧la

Inherited from Old Spanish cabtela, borrowed from Latin cautēla (“caution”).

cautela f (plural cautelas)

1. caution, care, caginess, chariness
2. precaution

   Synonym: precaución

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cautela

1. inflection of cautelar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “cautela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024