The corpus record — Latin

claudus

lame, limping

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Where it lives

Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 6 · 70.59/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 20s 1 · 60.24/10k
Apocolocyntosis 16 · 59.06/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 13s 1 · 58.82/10k
Divus Claudius 15 · 50.54/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 19s 1 · 49.75/10k
Ab urbe condita, fragments 1 · 47.62/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 41 19 · 24.99/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 43 8 · 13.94/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 16 · 10.85/10k
Tyranni Triginta 7 · 10.62/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 33 10 · 8.66/10k

Densest 12 of 120 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. claudus — de Vaan

claudus 'lame, limping' [adj. ο/α] (P1.+ also clodus) Derivatives: claudere 'to limp' (Caecil.+), claudicare 'to be lame' (P1.+). The etymology is uncertain. Many scholars have tried to connect claudus with clavis clemens 'bar' and clova 'club, stafP, as 'he who goes with a staff or 'he who has a hook, is hampered'· In that case, claudus may reflect *klawidos < *klaw- + -φο-. Yet adj. in -uhds are usually derived … — [de Vaan, s.v. claudus, p. 132]

2. claudus — Lewis & Short

claudus (clūdus, clōdus, Arat. Act. Apost. 266), a, um, adj.root klu-; v. claudo; prop. shut in, hampered,

Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 64; and

I limping, halting, lame.

I Prop.: sutor, Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 34: deus, Cic. N. D. 1, 30, 83: claudus altero pede, Nep. Ages. 8, 1; Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 61: pes, id. C. 3, 2, 32: pars serpentis, Verg. A. 5. 278 al.—

b Prov.: iste claudus, quemadmodum aiunt, pilam, said of one who cannot make a right use of a thing, Cic. Pis. 28, 69.—

II Trop., wavering, crippled, imperfect, defective (rare; mostly poet.): clauda navigia aplustris, * Lucr. 4, 436; cf.: claudae mutilataeque naves, Liv. 37, 24, 6; Curt. 9, 9, 13; Tac. A. 2, 24. —

B Esp. of language: clauda carmina alterno versu, i. e. elegies (since every second verse is a foot shorter than the preceding), Ov. Tr. 3, 1, 11: clausulae, Quint. 9, 4, 116; cf. id. 9, 4, 70.—

C Wavering, untrustworthy: clauda pars officii tui, Ov. P. 3, 1, 86; cf.: clauda fides, Sil. 13, 33.— No comp. or sup.

3. claudus — Walde–Hofmann

claudus, -a, -um (vulgär clódus [vgl. Clodius. neben Claudius, Leumann-Stolz5 79], vereinzelt [Plaut hss., Spätlat.] clüdus nach cado neben elaudö) „lahm, hinkend* (zeit Plaut., rom.; -aster Gl. -icus, -igö, clódimen Chiron, -itäs seit Plin), celaudeö, -sürus, -&re ,hinke* (seit Caecil., -@- Lucil Auson., vgl elüdus; nach claudo „schließe* auch claudo, -ere Sall. Fronto un): claudico, -ävi, -äre ds. (seit Cie., … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. claudus, p. 263]

In the wild

Claudius Cicero, De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 12
Claudius Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.27.40.13
Claudius Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 p30
Claudius Suetonius, Divus Claudius 2.1
Claudius Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 33 p42
Claudius Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.9.42.2

6 of 651 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. claudus (scan pp. 132-133; entry #283). Root candidates: *klaw-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. claudus (scan p. 150; entry #2246).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. claudus (scan p. 263; entry #671).

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