clausus

• clūsus

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈklau̯.sus/, [ˈkɫ̪äu̯s̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈklau̯.sus/, [ˈkläːu̯sus]

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.

• claudō
• Claudius

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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “clausus”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), 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