clausura

See also: clausurá

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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

Latin

Etymology

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

	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
• → Spanish: clausura
• → Venetan: clauxùra
• → Albanian: këshyre, → Albanian: Këlcyrë
• → English: clausure
• → Greek: κλεισούρα (kleisoúra)
  • → Bulgarian: клисура (klisura)
    • → Romanian: clisură

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.

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

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

Derived terms

• clausurar
• enclausurar

 

Related terms

• cláusula

 

Further reading

• “clausura”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024

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”). Cognate with English closure.

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 (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28