claudo
Dictionary entries
- Entry →claudus, clauda, claudum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
limping, lame; defective/crippled/imperfect; uneven/halting/wavering/uncertain;
abl. sg. (m.)abl. sg. (n.)dat. sg. (m.)dat. sg. (n.) - Entry →claudo, claudere, clausi, clausus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
close, shut, block up; conclude, finish; blockade, besiege; enclose; confine;; limp, stumble/falter/hesitate; be weak/imperfect, fall short; be lame, hobble;
sg. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
- T
Asinaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...tamen, tu nempe eos asinos praedicas vetulos, claudos, quibus subtritae ad femina iam erant ungulae? LEON. Ipsos..." - L
Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...maior! Quid si miretur velocitatem suam Ladas ad claudos debilesque respiciens? Illa vel intactae segetis per summa volaret..." - M
XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...mihi pro hoc redditis, leges? ubi respiro, ubi claudo gemitus, unde sumo solacium? bene, bene admones, dolor: illos..." - G
Epistola ad Caesarem II
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust) from SPURIA
"...decebat, servitio obpressere, nequicquam eo postea hebeti atque claudo, pro exercito uti volunt: nam imprudentia pleraque..."
