"clausus" meaning in Latin

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Verb

IPA: [ˈkɫau̯.sʊs] [Classical-Latin], [ˈklaːu̯.sus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Perfect passive participle of claudō (“I shut, close”). Head templates: {{la-part|clausus|comp=clausior}} clausus (feminine clausa, neuter clausum, comparative clausior); first/second-declension participle Inflection templates: {{la-adecl|clausus}} Forms: clausa [feminine], clausum [neuter], clausior [comparative], no-table-tags [table-tags], clausus [masculine, nominative, singular], clausa [feminine, nominative, singular], clausum [neuter, nominative, singular], clausī [masculine, nominative, plural], clausae [feminine, nominative, plural], clausa [neuter, nominative, plural], clausī [genitive, masculine, singular], clausae [feminine, genitive, singular], clausī [genitive, neuter, singular], clausōrum [genitive, masculine, plural], clausārum [feminine, genitive, plural], clausōrum [genitive, neuter, plural], clausō [dative, masculine, singular], clausae [dative, feminine, singular], clausō [dative, neuter, singular], clausīs [dative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], clausum [accusative, masculine, singular], clausam [accusative, feminine, singular], clausum [accusative, neuter, singular], clausōs [accusative, masculine, plural], clausās [accusative, feminine, plural], clausa [accusative, neuter, plural], clausō [ablative, masculine, singular], clausā [ablative, feminine, singular], clausō [ablative, neuter, singular], clausīs [ablative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], clause [masculine, singular, vocative], clausa [feminine, singular, vocative], clausum [neuter, singular, vocative], clausī [masculine, plural, vocative], clausae [feminine, plural, vocative], clausa [neuter, plural, vocative], clūsus [alternative]
  1. closed, inaccessible; having been closed Tags: declension-1, declension-2, form-of, participle, passive, perfect Form of: claudō (extra: I shut, close)
    Sense id: en-clausus-la-verb-GpsUD3V5 Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 19 30 33 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 22 27 28 23
  2. enclosed, having been shut off Tags: declension-1, declension-2, form-of, participle, passive, perfect Form of: claudō (extra: I shut, close)
    Sense id: en-clausus-la-verb-iQe74~NY Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 19 30 33 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 22 27 28 23
  3. shut, shut up, sealed, having been locked up Tags: declension-1, declension-2, form-of, participle, passive, perfect Form of: claudō (extra: I shut, close)
    Sense id: en-clausus-la-verb-2UevV64o Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 14 31 43 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 19 30 33 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 22 27 28 23
  4. (figurative, of a person) deaf, unhearing, unreachable Tags: declension-1, declension-2, figuratively, form-of, participle, passive, perfect Form of: claudō (extra: I shut, close)
    Sense id: en-clausus-la-verb-tZLzYWHQ Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 19 30 33 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 22 27 28 23
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: claustellum, claustrārius, claustrum, clausula, clausum, clausūra Related terms: claudō, Claudius

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "claustellum"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "claustrārius"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "claustrum"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "clausula"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "clausum"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "clausūra"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Perfect passive participle of claudō (“I shut, close”).",
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      "form": "clausa",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausum",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausior",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "declension",
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        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "declension",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausus",
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      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausa",
      "source": "declension",
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        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausum",
      "source": "declension",
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        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "plural"
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    },
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        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "clausae",
      "source": "declension",
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        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausī",
      "source": "declension",
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        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausārum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "form": "clausō",
      "source": "declension",
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        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausō",
      "source": "declension",
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        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "clausīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "clausīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clause",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clūsus",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "clausus",
        "comp": "clausior"
      },
      "expansion": "clausus (feminine clausa, neuter clausum, comparative clausior); first/second-declension participle",
      "name": "la-part"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "clausus"
      },
      "name": "la-adecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "claudō"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Claudius"
    }
  ],
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          "_dis": "19 30 33 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "22 27 28 23",
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        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "extra": "I shut, close",
          "word": "claudō"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "closed, inaccessible; having been closed"
      ],
      "id": "en-clausus-la-verb-GpsUD3V5",
      "links": [
        [
          "closed",
          "closed"
        ],
        [
          "inaccessible",
          "inaccessible"
        ]
      ],
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        "passive",
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    },
    {
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        {
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        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "extra": "I shut, close",
          "word": "claudō"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "enclosed, having been shut off"
      ],
      "id": "en-clausus-la-verb-iQe74~NY",
      "links": [
        [
          "enclosed",
          "enclosed"
        ],
        [
          "shut off",
          "shut off"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2",
        "form-of",
        "participle",
        "passive",
        "perfect"
      ]
    },
    {
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          "_dis": "14 31 43 12",
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        {
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.117–118",
          "text": "quicquid ubīque vidēs, caelum, mare, nūbila, terrās,\nomnia sunt nostra clausa patentque manū.\nWhatever thou beholdest around thee, the sky, the sea, the air, the earth , all these have been shut up and are opened by my hand.\n1851. The Fasti &c of Ovid. Translated by H. T. Riley. London: H. G. Bohn. pg. 11.",
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        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
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          "word": "claudō"
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        "shut, shut up, sealed, having been locked up"
      ],
      "id": "en-clausus-la-verb-2UevV64o",
      "links": [
        [
          "shut",
          "shut"
        ],
        [
          "shut up",
          "shut up"
        ],
        [
          "sealed",
          "sealed"
        ],
        [
          "locked up",
          "lock up"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2",
        "form-of",
        "participle",
        "passive",
        "perfect"
      ]
    },
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      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "extra": "I shut, close",
          "word": "claudō"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "deaf, unhearing, unreachable"
      ],
      "id": "en-clausus-la-verb-tZLzYWHQ",
      "links": [
        [
          "deaf",
          "deaf"
        ],
        [
          "unhearing",
          "unhearing"
        ],
        [
          "unreachable",
          "unreachable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative, of a person) deaf, unhearing, unreachable"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a person"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2",
        "figuratively",
        "form-of",
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        "passive",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkɫau̯.sʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈklaːu̯.sus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "clausus"
}
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    "Latin first and second declension participles",
    "Latin non-lemma forms",
    "Latin participles",
    "Latin perfect participles",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "claustellum"
    },
    {
      "word": "claustrārius"
    },
    {
      "word": "claustrum"
    },
    {
      "word": "clausula"
    },
    {
      "word": "clausum"
    },
    {
      "word": "clausūra"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Perfect passive participle of claudō (“I shut, close”).",
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    {
      "form": "clausa",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausum",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausior",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
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        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "declension",
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        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausārum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clause",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clausa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clūsus",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "clausus",
        "comp": "clausior"
      },
      "expansion": "clausus (feminine clausa, neuter clausum, comparative clausior); first/second-declension participle",
      "name": "la-part"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "clausus"
      },
      "name": "la-adecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "claudō"
    },
    {
      "word": "Claudius"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "extra": "I shut, close",
          "word": "claudō"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "closed, inaccessible; having been closed"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "closed",
          "closed"
        ],
        [
          "inaccessible",
          "inaccessible"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2",
        "form-of",
        "participle",
        "passive",
        "perfect"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "extra": "I shut, close",
          "word": "claudō"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "enclosed, having been shut off"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "enclosed",
          "enclosed"
        ],
        [
          "shut off",
          "shut off"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2",
        "form-of",
        "participle",
        "passive",
        "perfect"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.117–118",
          "text": "quicquid ubīque vidēs, caelum, mare, nūbila, terrās,\nomnia sunt nostra clausa patentque manū.\nWhatever thou beholdest around thee, the sky, the sea, the air, the earth , all these have been shut up and are opened by my hand.\n1851. The Fasti &c of Ovid. Translated by H. T. Riley. London: H. G. Bohn. pg. 11.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "extra": "I shut, close",
          "word": "claudō"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "shut, shut up, sealed, having been locked up"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shut",
          "shut"
        ],
        [
          "shut up",
          "shut up"
        ],
        [
          "sealed",
          "sealed"
        ],
        [
          "locked up",
          "lock up"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2",
        "form-of",
        "participle",
        "passive",
        "perfect"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "extra": "I shut, close",
          "word": "claudō"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "deaf, unhearing, unreachable"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "deaf",
          "deaf"
        ],
        [
          "unhearing",
          "unhearing"
        ],
        [
          "unreachable",
          "unreachable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative, of a person) deaf, unhearing, unreachable"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a person"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2",
        "figuratively",
        "form-of",
        "participle",
        "passive",
        "perfect"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkɫau̯.sʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈklaːu̯.sus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "clausus"
}

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