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Forms: clauda (data provider: perseus), claudae (data provider: perseus), claudam (data provider: perseus), claudas (data provider: perseus), claude (data provider: perseus), claudi (data provider: perseus), claudiorum (data provider: perseus), claudiorumque (data provider: perseus), claudique (data provider: perseus), claudis (data provider: perseus), claudius (data provider: perseus), claudiusque (data provider: perseus), claudo (data provider: perseus), claudorum (data provider: perseus), claudos (data provider: perseus), claudum (data provider: perseus), claudus (data provider: perseus), clavdivs (data provider: perseus), clodi (data provider: perseus), clodius (data provider: perseus), clodo (data provider: perseus), clodos (data provider: perseus), clodum (data provider: perseus), clodus (data provider: perseus)
Dictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- claudus (clūdus, Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 64; and clōdus, Arat. Act. Apost. 266), a, um, adj. [root klu-; v. claudo; prop. shut in, hampered], limping, halting, lame. I. Prop.:
sutor
, Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 34: deus
, Cic. N. D. 1, 30, 83: claudus altero pede
, Nep. Ages. 8, 1; Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 61: pes
, id. C. 3, 2, 32: pars serpentis
, Verg. A. 5. 278 al.—b. Prov.: iste claudus, quemadmodum aiunt, pilam
, said of one who cannot make a right use of a thing
, Cic. Pis. 28, 69.—II. Trop., wavering, crippled, imperfect, defective (rare; mostly poet.): clauda navigia aplustris, Lucr. 4, 436; cf.: claudae mutilataeque naves
, Liv. 37, 24, 6; Curt. 9, 9, 13; Tac. A. 2, 24. —B. Esp. of language: clauda carmina alterno versu, i. e. elegies (since every second verse is a foot shorter than the preceding), Ov. Tr. 3, 1, 11: clausulae
, Quint. 9, 4, 116; cf. id. 9, 4, 70.—C. Wavering, untrustworthy: clauda pars officii tui
, Ov. P. 3, 1, 86; cf.: clauda fides
, Sil. 13, 33.— No comp. or sup.
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