[Vocabulary] 'caveat' vs 'warning'

[Olympian]

Hello,

is the following use of 'caveat' as 'warning' correct?

In summer, the newspapers carry a caveat in India, which says people should drink enough water.

Thank you.

 

[5jj]

No

 

[probus]

Caveat comes from the Latin caveat emptor, let the buyer beware. Therefore some people may feel that its use should be restricted to cases in which something is being bought and sold. But a look at the CoCAE shows that caveat has become a synonym for warning, at least is AmE.

 

[dinhchi27]

no no

 

[SoothingDave]

Caveat comes from the Latin caveat emptor, let the buyer beware. Therefore some people may feel that its use should be restricted to cases in which something is being bought and sold. But a look at the CoCAE shows that caveat has become a synonym for warning, at least is AmE.

i wouldn't restrict it to marketplace warnings, but it does seem to me to be a word which is used only in serious or formal writing and to an audience that is likely to know Latin phrases. Not in casual conversation or for more general audiences.

We have flash flood warnings, not flash flood caveats.

 

[Rover_KE]

no no

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[MikeNewYork]

Caveat comes from the Latin caveat emptor, let the buyer beware. Therefore some people may feel that its use should be restricted to cases in which something is being bought and sold. But a look at the CoCAE shows that caveat has become a synonym for warning, at least is AmE.

Caveat has grown some in the last 30 years.

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