The corpus record — Latin

cautes

cautes · f

a rough

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Where it lives

Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 3 · 2.66/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
Carmina 5 · 2.23/10k
Pharsalia 11 · 2.16/10k
Argonautica 7 · 1.88/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. cautēs — Lewis & Short

cautēs (e. g. cautĭs, Prud. stef. 10, 701), is, f.kindr. with cōs, cōtis; Sanscr. s)ō, acuere, Bopp, Gloss. 353, 6,

Tib. 2, 4, 9:

I a rough, pointed rock: saxa et cautes timere, Caes. B. G. 3, 13: celsae, Enn. Ann. 402 Vahl. ex conj.: durae, Verg. A. 4, 366; Ov. M. 4, 672; 7, 418: praerupta, id. ib. 1, 719: solida, id. ib. 12, 124: inviae, Plin. 37, 2, 10, § 27. —As a symbol of insensibility, Ov. M. 11, 330.

2. cautes — Walde–Hofmann

cautes, cütés: zum -au- und zu cös „Stein“ im Vlt. s. Brüch Gl. 26, 164 fl. -ce Z. 18: anders Jokl Eberts RL. 10, 145. 147 (oepou aus *Kesmói). — Z.3 v. E.: die Partikel *% nach Pedersen Hitt. 50 in heth. Li „dieses“, ki-nun „jetzt“. cella Z. 1 v.E.: unwrsch. Güntert Labyrinth 28f. (von einem voridg. ägäischen *kel-, *kal-, kol- „Steingebäude“, angebl, auch in calz, s. d.). celsus Z. 11: vgl. auch gr. keAéovrec „die … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. cautes, p. 887]

In the wild

cautibus Claudian, de Bello Gothico 1.182
cautes Lucan, Pharsalia 9.655
cautibus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.12.43
cautes Vergil, Aeneid 5.163
cautibus Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.575
cautes Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 24.2.12

6 of 78 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. cautes (scan p. 681; entry #11295).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. cautes (scan pp. 887-889; entry #1633). Root candidates: *kel-, *kal-, *koilon-.

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