adverb
cautē
cautē (not comparable)
Classical[ˈkau̯.teː]Ecclesiastical[ˈkaːu̯.te]
Meaning
- not comparablecautiously
tollensque illud portavit ad domum suam occulte ut dum sol occubuisset caute sepeliret eum
And taking it up carried it privately to his house, that after the sun was down, he might bury him cautiously.c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Tobit.2.4
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
cum cūrā, prūdentercaute — in IVLIANVS I: Gallia, ch. 13
cautē, adv., v. caveo,
I. P. a. fin.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
cautē adv. with comp. and sup.
cautus, cautiously, prudently, carefully: iter facere, Cs.: dicere, guardedly: cautius adcuro, ne, etc., T.: cur olivum Sanguine Cautius vitat? H.: Cautius te credere Marti, V.: quam cautissime navigare.
Origins
From cautus (“cautious”) + -ē.