claustra

claustra

1. plural of claustrum

• IPA^(key): /klos.tʁa/

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• Homophones: claustras, claustrât

Borrowed from Latin claustra.

claustra m or f (plural claustras)

1. (architecture) a type of decorative screen

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

claustra

1. third-person singular past historic of claustrer

• clōstra

From claudō (“I close, shut up”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɫau̯s.tra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈklau̯s.t̪ra]

claustra n pl (genitive claustrōrum); second declension

1. A lock, bar, bolt
2. A gate, entrance
3. A barricade, bulwark
4. A hindrance

This word almost always appears in the plural, and only very rarely in the singular.

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

• claudō
• claustrum
• clausula
• clausum
• clausus

claustra

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of claustrum

• “claustra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “claustra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "claustra", 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)
• “claustra”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to break down the gates: claustra portarum revellere
    

Borrowed from French claustrer.

a claustra (third-person singular present claustrează, past participle claustrat) 1st conjugation

1. to confine