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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ɛkˈskɫuː.doː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ekˈskluː.do]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''exclūdō''' (present infinitive exclūdere, perfect active exclūsī, supine exclūsum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[ex-]] and [[claudō]] “to shut”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) Terence has the shortened perfect ⟨exclusti⟩ for ⟨exclusisti⟩, and Varro the spelling ⟨escl-⟩.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation for excluding from an action is from Plautus, and Cato uses it of uncovering.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to shut out, deny entry, as in Terence and as the people of Gades shut the Carthaginians out of their walls, to cut off a place, and to debar or hinder from an action.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant to rule out a course of action, to leave out or omit, as in Varro, and to bring out of a container, and Cicero uses it of hatching from an egg.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to reject, exclude, drive away, keep out.^(Stelten 1995) Its feminine participle gave Late Latin ''exclūsa'' “a barrier shutting out water”, the source of Old French ''escluse'' and [[en|sluice]], and the verb itself gave [[en|exclude]] in the mid-14th century.^(Etymonline) It survives in Italian ''schiudere'' “to open”, and French ''éclore'' “to hatch” comes from a variant *exclaudere.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of preventing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of uncovering.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of shutting out.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of hatching.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * mid-14th century – English ''exclude'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To shut out, keep out, deny entry to.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # To cut off, separate.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To [[m|en|exclude]], debar, hinder, prevent; to rule out.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To leave out, [[m|en|omit]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # To bring out, uncover; to [[m|en|hatch]].^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[exclūsiō]]
+ * [[exclusor]]
+ * [[exclūsus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[circumclūdō]]
+ * [[claudō]]
+ * [[conclūdō]]
+ * [[disclūdō]]
+ * [[inclūdō]]
+ * [[interclūdō]]
+ * [[occlūdō]]
+ * [[praeclūdō]]
+ * [[rēclūdō]]
+ * [[sēclūdō]]
+ * [[en|exclude]]
+ * [[en|sluice]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}