clausula

Borrowed from Latin clausula.

clausula (plural clausulae)

1. (music) The conclusion of a passage; cadence.
2. The close or end of a historical period; clause.

• (music): cadence

From clausus +‎ -ula, perfect passive participle of claudō (“shut, close”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɫau̯.sʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈklaːu̯.su.la]

clausula f (genitive clausulae); first declension

1. conclusion, close, end
2. (rhetoric) the close of a period
3. (law) the conclusion of a legal formula

First-declension noun.

• claudō
• clausūra
• clausus

• “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