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- Latin · derived fromclausus
- Medieval Latin · derived fromclausa
- Old French · derived fromclause
- Middle English · inherited fromclause
- English todayclause
From Middle English clause, claus, borrowed from Old French clause, from Medieval Latin clausa (Latin diminutive clausula (“close, end; a clause, close of a period”)), from Latin clausus, past participle of claudere (“to shut, close”). See close, its doublet.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.