clusus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of clūdō.

Participle

clūsus (feminine clūsa, neuter clūsum); first/second-declension participle

1. alternative form of clausus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	clūsus	clūsa	clūsum		clūsī	clūsae	clūsa
genitive	clūsī	clūsae	clūsī		clūsōrum	clūsārum	clūsōrum
dative	clūsō	clūsae	clūsō		clūsīs
accusative	clūsum	clūsam	clūsum		clūsōs	clūsās	clūsa
ablative	clūsō	clūsā	clūsō		clūsīs
vocative	clūse	clūsa	clūsum		clūsī	clūsae	clūsa

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: chiuso, chiusa
    • → Serbo-Croatian: ćuza
      • → Albanian: quzë
  • Sicilian: chiusu, chiusa
• Ancient borrowings:
  • Proto-West Germanic: *klūsā (see there for further descendants)

References

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

Anagrams

• sulcus