caveo

Meaning

  1. (conjugation-2) to take precautions, beware, take care; to guard against, attend to a thing for a person, provide
  2. (conjugation-2, with-accusative) to take precautions, beware, take care; to guard against, attend to a thing for a person, provide
  3. (conjugation-2, with-ablative, with-dative) to guard against, to be on one's guard against, to take care that (not)
  4. (conjugation-2, imperative, with-ablative, with-dative) to guard against, to be on one's guard against, to take care that (not)
  5. (conjugation-2, with-dative) to look out in the interests of
  6. (conjugation-2) to make legal provisions (for or against), to order, decree, stipulate
  7. (conjugation-2) to give surety or guarantees, to secure bail; to pledge, certify
  8. (conjugation-2) to give surety or guarantees, to secure bail; to pledge, certify

Concepts

give security

hollow place

provide for

look out for

Pronounced as (IPA)
[ˈka.we.oː]
Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kaweō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kowh₁éyeti, a causative from *(s)kewh₁-. Cognate with Ancient Greek κοέω (koéō), Sanskrit कवि (kaví, “wise, poet, seer, sage”), Lithuanian kavoti (“safeguard, tend”), Russian чу́ять (čújatʹ), Old Armenian ցուցանեմ (cʻucʻanem, “I show”), English show.

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