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Clus Latin Means Claudere Close Words Based Verb

word CLUS
meaning CLUS comes from the Latin claudere, “to close.” Words based on the Latin verb often have forms in which the d becomes an s. So, for example, include, which once meant “to shut up or enclose” and now means “to contain,” has the related word inclusive, which means “including everything.”

Tags: mwvb::root, mwvb::unit:22, mwvb::unit:22:root, obsidian_to_anki

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