claustro

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin claustrum (“portion of monastery closed off to laity”), from Latin claustrum (“place shut in, bar, bolt, enclosure”). Doublet of caustra.

• IPA^(key): [ˈklawstɾʊ]

claustro m (plural claustros)

1. cloister

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “claustro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “claustro”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “claustro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “claustro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “claustro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from Latin claustrum (“enclosure”, “closed space”). Doublet of chiostro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈklaws.tro/
• Rhymes: -awstro
• Hyphenation: clàu‧stro

claustro m (plural claustri) (literary)

1. cloister

   Synonym: chiostro

2. (figurative) closure, closing

   Synonym: chiusura

   Antonym: apertura

3. (neuroanatomy) claustrum

• claustrale
• claustrofilia
• claustrofobia

• scoltura

claustrō

1. dative/ablative singular of claustrum

Borrowed from Medieval Latin claustrum (“portion of monastery closed off to laity”), from Latin claustrum (“place shut in, bar, bolt, enclosure”).

• Hyphenation: claus‧tro

claustro m (plural claustros)

1. cloister

Borrowed from Medieval Latin claustrum (“portion of monastery closed off to laity”), from Latin claustrum (“place shut in, bar, bolt, enclosure”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈklaustɾo/ [ˈklau̯s.t̪ɾo]
• Rhymes: -austɾo
• Syllabification: claus‧tro

claustro m (plural claustros)

1. (religion) cloister
2. (religion) claustration

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