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Caveat, the third-person singular present subjunctive of the Latin cavere, means "warning" (or more literally, "let him beware"); it can be shorthand for Latin phrases such as It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Narrator. ... In linguistics, the term grammatical number refers to ways of expressing quantity by inflecting words. ... The present tense is the tense (form of a verb) that is often used to express: Action at the present time A state of being A habitual action An occurrence in the near future An action that occurred in the past and continues up to the present There are two... // Introduction The subjunctive mood (sometimes referred to as the conjunctive mood) is a grammatical mood of the verb that expresses wishes, commands (in subordinate clauses), emotion, possibility, judgment, necessity and statements that are contrary to fact. ... This page lists direct English translations of common Latin phrases, such as veni vidi vici and et cetera. ...

More narrowly, caveat can also refer to Caveat lector is Latin phrase meaning Let the reader beware. The phrase is used in written English in two distinct ways. ... It has been suggested that caveat venditor be merged into this article or section. ... Caveat venditor is Latin for let the seller beware. It is a counter to the buyers warning, caveat emptor, and suggests that sellers too can be taken to the cleaners in a market transaction. ...

  • CAVEAT, a Canadian lobby group;
  • The Paulette Caveat about certain First Nations rights to northern Canada;
  • The name of an album by the U.S. metal band Nuclear Death
  • A patent Caveat was like a patent application without claims and was an official notice of intention to file a patent application at a later date. Caveats were discontinued in 1909. Caveats were similar to Provisional Patent Applications used today in the US Patent Office.

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It has been suggested that caveat venditor be merged into this article or section.
This phrase has given rise to many informal variations, such as caveat reader (properly expressed in Latin as caveat lector).
Caveat emptor has also been used by software documentors to entitle their collection of software functioning oddities or stumbling blocks in usage.
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