clause
English
/klɔːz/
noun
Definitions
- (grammar) A verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them.
- (grammar) A verb along with its subject and their modifiers. If a clause provides a complete thought on its own, then it is an independent (superordinate) clause; otherwise, it is (subordinate) dependent.
- (legal) A separate part of a contract, a will or another legal document.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English clause borrowed from Old French clause derived from Latin clausa, clausus (closed, enclosed, shut, shut up, inaccessible) root from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kleh₂w- (hook, peg, crook, a peg, a crook).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)kleh₂w-
Gloss
hook, peg, crook, a peg, a crook
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- abocclusion English
- benocclusion English
- biclausal English
- clausal English
- clausehood English
- clauselike English
- claustral English
- claustrum English
- clavichord English
- cloisterless English
- cloisterlike English
- cloistress English
- cloyingly English
- disocclusion English
- encloister English
- exclusive English
- foreclosee English
- inclusively English
- inclusiveness English
- inclusivity English
- malocclusion English
- monoclausal English
- multiclausal English
- multiclause English
- non-exclusive English
- nonclausal English
- nonoccluded English
- nonocclusion English
- occluder English
- occlusive English
- overinclusivity English
- postocclusion English
- pre-occluded English
- preocclusion English
- reocclude English
- reocclusion English
- subclausal English
- subclause English
- superclausal English
- unoccluded English
- vasoocclusion English
- klausuuli Finnish
- *clausiō, clausiōnem Latin
- circumcludo Latin
- clausa Latin
- claustrum Latin
- clausula Latin
- clausum Latin
- clausura Latin
- clausus Latin
- clausūra Latin
- clavis Latin
- clāvis Latin
- clāvus Latin
- clāvīcula Latin
- clūsa Latin
- clūsura Latin
- excludo Latin
- exclusio Latin
- exclusivus Latin
- exclusiō Latin
- exclūdō Latin
- includo Latin
- inclusio Latin
- inclusio, inclusionis Latin
- inclūdere, inclūdō Latin
- inclūdō Latin
- inclūsus Latin
- occludo Latin
- occludĕre Latin
- occlūdō Latin
- occlūsiōnem, occlūsiō Latin
- Klausel German
- Klausner German
- clause French
- cloisonné French
- κλείς Ancient Greek
- *(s)kleh₂w- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)kleh₂w-, *kleh₂u- Proto-Indo-European
- *kleh₂ud-, *kleh₂u- Proto-Indo-European
- *klāw- Proto-Indo-European
- klausul Swedish
- forclȳsan Old English
- clause Middle English
- clause Old French
- cloistrier Old French
- clos Old French
- closet Old French
- klaŭzo Esperanto
- clos Catalan, Valencian
- klausa Icelandic
- chouso Galician
- klauzo Ido
- клауза Bulgarian
- cloistral Middle French
- *klāwos Proto-Celtic
- clauvisso Old Occitan
- achlwedd Proto-Brythonic
- κλᾳ̃θρα grc-dor
- clausal
- occluder
- biclausal
- claustrum
- cloyingly
- subclause
- reocclude
- occlusive
- claustral
- exclusive
- encloister
- nonclausal
- unoccluded
- foreclosee
- subclausal
- cloistress
- clavichord
- clauselike
- clausehood
- inclusivity
- abocclusion
- reocclusion
- nonoccluded
- inclusively
- multiclause
- monoclausal
- disocclusion
- cloisterlike
- cloisterless
- superclausal
- benocclusion
- malocclusion
- preocclusion
- pre-occluded
- multiclausal
- nonocclusion
- non-exclusive
- inclusiveness
- vasoocclusion
- postocclusion
- overinclusivity