Etymology

aquiclude

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Today it means: A solid, impermeable area underlying or overlying an aquifer. Full definition →

Latin claudere
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromclaudere“to shut”
  2. English todayaquiclude

From aqui- + Latin claudere (“to shut”).

Words from the same roots

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