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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin clausula.
Noun
clausula (plural clausulae)
- (music) The conclusion of a passage; cadence.
- The close or end of a historical period; clause.
Synonyms
Latin
Etymology
From clausus + -ula, perfect passive participle of claudō (“shut, close”).
Pronunciation
Noun
clausula f (genitive clausulae); first declension
- conclusion, close, end
- (rhetoric) the close of a period
- (law) the conclusion of a legal formula
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “clausula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “clausula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- clausula 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)
- clausula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “clausula”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly