clausus

Latin

Alternative forms

• clūsus

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of claudō (“I shut, close”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈklau̯.sus/, [ˈkɫ̪äu̯s̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈklau̯.sus/, [ˈkläːu̯sus]

Participle

clausus (feminine clausa, neuter clausum, comparative clausior); first/second-declension participle

1. closed, inaccessible; having been closed
2. enclosed, having been shut off
3. shut, shut up, sealed, having been locked up
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.117–118:

     quicquid ubīque vidēs, caelum, mare, nūbila, terrās,
     omnia sunt nostra clausa patentque manū.

     Whatever thou beholdest around thee, the sky, the sea, the air, the earth , all these have been shut up and are opened by my hand.
     1851. The Fasti &c of Ovid. Translated by H. T. Riley. London: H. G. Bohn. pg. 11.

4. (figurative, of a person) deaf, unhearing, unreachable

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	clausus	clausa	clausum		clausī	clausae	clausa
genitive	clausī	clausae	clausī		clausōrum	clausārum	clausōrum
dative	clausō	clausae	clausō		clausīs
accusative	clausum	clausam	clausum		clausōs	clausās	clausa
ablative	clausō	clausā	clausō		clausīs
vocative	clause	clausa	clausum		clausī	clausae	clausa

Derived terms

• claustellum
• claustrārius
• claustrum
• clausula
• clausum
• clausūra

 

Related terms

• claudō
• Claudius

Descendants

See also clūsus.

• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: clos
    • French: clos
    • Gallo: tio
    • Norman: clios, cliôs, cllos
    • → Middle English: clos (in part)
      • English: close
        • → Irish: clós
        • → Welsh: clos
      • Scots: close
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: clos
  • Occitan: claus
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: chouso, chousa
  • Portuguese: chouso, chousa

References

• “clausus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “clausus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• clausus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• clausus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to keep the coast and harbours in a state of blockade: litora ac portus custodia clausos tenere
    
• “clausus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray