# clausura
## Catalan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [kləwˈzu.ɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [klawˈzu.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -uɾa
* Hyphenation: clau‧su‧ra

### Noun

clausura f (plural clausures)
* 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, 2025
* “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: /klawˈzu.ra/
* Rhymes: -ura
* Hyphenation: clau‧sù‧ra

### Noun

clausura f (plural clausure) (usually uncountable)
* (Christianity) a monastic rule imposing cloistering
* (figurative) a cloistered life

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /klau̯ˈsuː.ra/, [kɫ̪äu̯ˈs̠uːrä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /klau̯ˈsu.ra/, [kläu̯ˈsuːrä]

### Noun

clausūra f (genitive clausūrae); first declension
(Late Latin)
* lock, bar, bolt
* clasp (of a necklace)
* castle, fort
* cloister

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* claudō
* claustellum
* claustrārius
* claustrum
* clausula
* clausum
* clausus

#### 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: /klawˈzy.ɾɔ/
* Rhymes: -yɾɔ
* Hyphenation: clau‧su‧ra

### Noun

clausura f (plural clausuras)
* closure, the act of closing
* 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: /klawˈzu.ɾɐ/ [klaʊ̯ˈzu.ɾɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /klawˈzu.ɾɐ/ [klaʊ̯ˈzu.ɾɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /klawˈzu.ɾa/ [klaʊ̯ˈzu.ɾa]
* (Portugal) IPA: /klawˈzu.ɾɐ/
* Rhymes: -uɾɐ
* Hyphenation: clau‧su‧ra

### Noun

clausura f (plural clausuras)
* (Christianity) clausure, enclosure, claustral confinement
* (Christianity, by extension) convent
* (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, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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)
* closing, closure (the end or conclusion of something)
    Synonym: cierre m
    Antonym: apertura f
* (Christianity) closed monastery or convent
* closing ceremony

##### Derived terms

* clausurar

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

clausura
* inflection of clausurar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “clausura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10