Caveat, the third-person singular present subjunctive of the Latin cavere, means "warning" (or more literally, "let him beware", "let her beware" or "let it beware"); it can be shorthand for Latin phrases such as: Caveat lector, "let the reader beware" Caveat emptor, "let the buyer beware" Caveat venditor, "let the seller beware" Caveat may also refer to: CAVEAT, a Canadian lobby group Paulette Caveat about certain First Nations rights to northern Canada Patent caveat, a legal document fi… (More on Caveat)