cautum

Substantivisation of cautus (“protected, guaranteed, stipulated”), past participle of caveō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkau̯.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaːu̯.t̪um]

cautum n (genitive cautī); second declension

1. (law, chiefly in the plural) provisions (of a law)
2. (law) a decree
   • c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum 1 10:

     [...]; nam cum multiplici undique familia conparata inimicos exterruisset, cautum est de numero gladiatorum, quo ne maiorem cuiquam habere Romae liceret.

     [...]; for he (Caesar) had finally mustered such a great host of them from all parts; of which, his enemies being in great fear, made the senate rule by decree the number of gladiators one might keep beside him in Rome.

3. (Medieval Latin) protected territory, district subject to an immunity

Second-declension noun (neuter).

cautum

1. inflection of cautus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

• "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