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

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

First/second-declension adjective.

See also clūsus.

  • “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