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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=ine-pro *kleh₂w-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ɪn.tɛrˈkɫuː.doː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [in.terˈkluː.do]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''interclūdō''' (present infinitive interclūdere, perfect active interclūsī, supine interclūsum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[inter-]] “between” and [[claudō]] “to shut”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨claudō⟩ to [[ine-pro|*kleh₂u-d-|t=to shut]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is from the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', of blocking a road.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates it 86/82 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to make impassable, block, cut, as of roads, the sea or a flight in Caesar; to choke, stifle the breath or voice, as in Varro; to separate, cut off from; to cut off someone's advance or passage; to prevent a person from acting; and to hinder, obstruct, all in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to block, hinder, shut off.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin glossaries misread it as a noun, a screen, barrier.^(DMLBS)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 86/82 BC – the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of stifling.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of cutting off.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To block, make impassable.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To choke, stifle.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To cut off, separate.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To prevent, [[m|en|hinder]].^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[interclūsiō]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[claudō]]
+ * [[inclūdō]]
+ * [[exclūdō]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}