clausura

clausura

See also: clausurá

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin clausūra, from Latin claudō (“to close, to shut”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kləwˈzu.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /klawˈzu.ɾa/
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Hyphenation: clau‧su‧ra

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, 2023
• “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, past participle of claudō (“to close, to shut”). See also the inherited doublet chiusura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klawˈzu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: clau‧sù‧ra

Noun

clausura f (plural clausure) (usually uncountable)

1. (Christianity) a monastic rule imposing cloistering
2. (figurative) a cloistered life

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Latin

Etymology

Late Latin. From clausus (“shut, closed”, past participle of claudō) +‎ -sūra.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /klau̯ˈsuː.ra/, [kɫ̪äu̯ˈs̠uːrä]
• (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

Descendants

• Aromanian: Cljisura
• → Catalan: clausura
• → Friulian: clausure
• Galician: chousura
• Italian: chiusura; → clausura
• Old French:
  • closure
    • → English: closure
  • ⇒ closture
    • French: clôture
      • → English: cloture
• Occitan: clausura
• Portuguese: chousura; → clausura
• → Polish: klauzura
• Romanian: clisură
• → Spanish: clausura
• → Venetian: clauxùra
• → Albanian: këshyre, → Albanian: Këlcyrë
• → 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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Occitan

Etymology

From Late Latin clausūra, from Latin claudō (“to close, to shut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klawˈzy.ɾɔ/
• Rhymes: -yɾɔ
• Hyphenation: clau‧su‧ra

Noun

clausura f (plural clausuras)

1. closure, the act of closing
2. enclosure, fence

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin clausūra, from Latin clausus, past participle of claudō (“to close, to shut”). Compare the inherited doublet chousura.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /klawˈzu.ɾɐ/ [klaʊ̯ˈzu.ɾɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /klawˈzu.ɾɐ/ [klaʊ̯ˈzu.ɾɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /klawˈzu.ɾa/ [klaʊ̯ˈzu.ɾa]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /klawˈzu.ɾɐ/

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: clau‧su‧ra

Noun

clausura f (plural clausuras)

1. (Christianity) clausure, enclosure, claustral confinement
2. (Christianity, by extension) convent
3. (figuratively) a cloistered life

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klauˈsuɾa/ [klau̯ˈsu.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: clau‧su‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin clausūra, from Latin clausus, perfect passive participle of claudō (“to close, to shut”).

Noun

clausura f (plural clausuras)

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

   Synonym: cierre m

   Antonym: apertura f

2. (Christianity) closed monastery or convent
3. closing ceremony

Derived terms

• clausurar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

clausura

1. inflection of clausurar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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