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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From some extension of *kelh₂- (“to strike, cut”), leading to derivatives meaning "broken or cut off," see also Russian колдыка (koldyka, “lame”) and Ancient Greek κολοβός (kolobós, “curtailed, broken”); the root is also the ultimate source of English halt.
Pronunciation
Adjective
claudus (feminine clauda, neuter claudum); first/second-declension adjective
- limping, halting, lame, crippled
- Synonym: dēbilis
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Matthew 11:5:
- Caeci vident, claudi ambulant
- The blind see, the lame walk
- (figurative, rare, usually poetic) wavering, imperfect, defective
- (figurative) halting, wavering, uncertain, untrustworthy
Inflection
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
References
- “claudus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “claudus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- claudus 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)
- claudus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Gibbs, The formation of Teutonic words in the English language