caveat

Meanings

1. A warning.
2. A qualification or exemption.
3. A formal objection.
4. A formal notice of interest in land under a Torrens land-title system.
5. A notice requesting a postponement of a court proceeding.

1. To qualify a statement with a caveat or proviso.
2. To formally object to something.
3. To lodge a formal notice of interest in land under a Torrens land-title system.
4. To issue a notice requesting that proceedings be suspended.
5. To warn or caution against some event.

1. A locality in the Shire of Murrindindi, central eastern Victoria, Australia.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin caveat (“may he/she/it beware”), third-person singular present active subjunctive of caveō (“to beware of”). Doublet of show, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁- (“to heed, look, feel, take note of”).

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