Other forms: caveats
A caveat is a warning about a limit or condition. With one caveat, enter a caveat, the usual caveats.
In research and reporting, caveats are the conditions under which a claim holds, and burying them is the commonest way of misleading honestly. In law, entering a caveat formally warns a court not to act without hearing you. Note caveat emptor, let the buyer beware; and that the Latin means let him beware.
1nouncaveatA warning about a limit or condition.
“The offer sounds great, but there's one caveat: you must sign up for two years.”
caveat is a warning.
Latin caveat means let him or her beware, from cavere, to beware. Caution and precaution come from the same wariness.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)kewh₁- — to heed, look, feel, take note of
Latin
caveat — may he/she/it beware
English, today
caveat
Built from
Latin caveat (“may he/she/it beware”), third-person singular present active subjunctive of caveō (“to beware of”). a doublet of show, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European (s)kewh₁- (“to heed, look, feel, take note of”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA