claudo
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Italic *klaudō, from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u-de-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w- (“key, hook, nail”).
Cognate with Ancient Greek κλείω (kleíō), κλείς (kleís, “bar, bolt, key”), Russian заключи́ть (zaključítʹ) (via ключ (ključ)), Old High German sliozan (“to close, conclude, lock”), Old Saxon slūtan (“to close, conclude, lock”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkɫau̯.doː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈklaːu̯.do]
Verb
[edit]claudō (present infinitive claudere, perfect active clausī, supine clausum); third conjugation
- to shut up, close, lock
- Synonyms: retineō, intersaepiō, interclūdō, inclūdō, operiō, premō, obserō
- Antonyms: adaperiō, aperiō, patefaciō
- Ōra formīdō mūta claudit.
- The fear closes the mouths mute.
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.232–233:
- “quid Trōēs potuēre, quibus, tot fūnera passīs,
cūnctus ob Ītaliam terrārum clauditur orbis?”- “What have the Trojans done, for whom, having suffered so many losses, the whole circle of the lands has been closed. [And all] for the sake of Italy.”
(Venus, speaking to Jupiter, laments the plight of the Trojans as they wander the Mediterranean shores.)
- “What have the Trojans done, for whom, having suffered so many losses, the whole circle of the lands has been closed. [And all] for the sake of Italy.”
- “quid Trōēs potuēre, quibus, tot fūnera passīs,
- to imprison, confine
- Synonyms: comprehendo, retineo, intersaepio, includo, intercludo, arceo, impedio, urgeō, coërceō, prohibeo
- to encompass, surround
- Synonyms: complector, amplector, stīpō, circumdō, circumveniō
- to besiege, blockade
- Synonyms: circumveniō, circumeō, circumsistō, circumdō, obsideō, assideō, circumsaepiō, saepiō, obstruō
- to limit, restrict
- to terminate, finish, complete
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of claudō (third conjugation)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Reflexes of the variant clūdere:
- Balkano-Romance:
- Aromanian: cljid
- Italo-Romance:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old Occitan: cluire
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin:
- *clūdicāre (see there for further descendants)
- *clūdināre / *clūdiniare
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]claudō (present infinitive claudere, supine clausum); third conjugation, no perfect stem
- alternative form of claudeō (“limp”)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of claudō (third conjugation, no perfect stem)
Adjective
[edit]claudō
References
[edit]- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to turn a deaf ear to, to open one's ears to..: aures claudere, patefacere (e.g. veritati, assentatoribus)
- (ambiguous) to open, shut the door: ostium, fores aperire, claudere
- (ambiguous) to bring up the rear: agmen claudere, cogere
- (ambiguous) to besiege a city: oppidum obsidione claudere
- (ambiguous) to turn a deaf ear to, to open one's ears to..: aures claudere, patefacere (e.g. veritati, assentatoribus)
- “claudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “claudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- claudo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- “claudo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “claudĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 750
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