clausura

See also: clausurá

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin clausūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kləwˈzu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [klawˈzu.ɾa]

Noun

clausura f (plural clausures)

1. closing, closure

Derived terms

• clausurar

Further reading

• “clausura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “clausura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “clausura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “clausura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin clausūra, from Latin clausus. See also the inherited doublet chiusura.

Noun

clausura f (plural clausure)

1. a cloistered life

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Latin

Etymology

Late Latin. From clausus (“shut, closed”) +‎ -sūra.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /klau̯ˈsuː.ra/, [kɫ̪äu̯ˈs̠uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /klau̯ˈsu.ra/, [kläu̯ˈsuːrä]

Noun

clausūra f (genitive clausūrae); first declension

(Late Latin)

1. lock, bar, bolt
2. clasp (of a necklace)
3. castle, fort
4. cloister

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	clausūra	clausūrae
Genitive	clausūrae	clausūrārum
Dative	clausūrae	clausūrīs
Accusative	clausūram	clausūrās
Ablative	clausūrā	clausūrīs
Vocative	clausūra	clausūrae

Related terms

• claudō
• claustellum
• claustrārius
• claustrum

• clausula
• clausum
• clausus

Descendants

• Aromanian: Cljisura
• → Catalan: clausura
• → Friulian: clausure
• Galician: chousura
• Italian: chiusura; → clausura
• Old French: closure
  • → English: closure
• ⇒ Old French: closture
  • French: clôture
    • → English: cloture
• Italian: chousura; → clausura
• Romanian: clisură
• → Spanish: clausura
• → Venetian: clauxùra
• → Albanian: këshyre
• → English: clausure
• Greek: κλεισούρα (kleisoúra)

References

• “clausura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• clausura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin clausūra, from Latin clausus. Compare the inherited doublet chousura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klaw.ˈzu.ɾɐ/
• Hyphenation: clau‧su‧ra

Noun

clausura f (plural s)

1. clausure, enclosure, claustral confinement
2. a cloistered life
3. convent

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klauˈsuɾa/ [klau̯ˈsu.ɾa]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin clausūra, from Latin clausus.

Noun

clausura f (plural clausuras)

1. closing, closure (the end or conclusion of something)

   Synonym: cierre

   Antonym: apertura

2. closed monastery or convent
3. closing ceremony

Derived terms

• clausurar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

clausura

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of clausurar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of clausurar.

Further reading

• “clausura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014