clos

Inherited from Latin clausus. Compare Occitan claus, French clos, and Italian chiuso.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈklɔs]

clos (feminine closa, masculine plural closos, feminine plural closes)

1. enclosed
2. (figurative) retiring, incommunicative

clos m (plural closos)

1. enclosure

clos (feminine closa, masculine plural closos, feminine plural closes)

1. past participle of cloure

• “clos” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Past participle of clore. From Old French clos. Corresponds to Latin clausus.

• IPA^(key): /klo/

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clos (feminine close, masculine plural clos, feminine plural closes)

1. past participle of clore

clos (feminine close, masculine plural clos, feminine plural closes)

1. closed, shut

   Synonym: fermé

2. shut in, enclosed

clos m (plural clos)

1. a piece of cultivated land surrounded by walls or hedges, especially a small vineyard
2. (Louisiana) field, cultivated farm field

• cloison
• closement
• enclos

• “clos”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• cols, LOSC

• IPA^(key): /kl̪ˠosˠ/^[1]

clos m (genitive singular cloiste)

1. verbal noun of clois

   Synonyms: cloisteáil, cloisint, cluinstin

   is clos dom ― I hear

   Tá clos agam air sin. ― I’ve heard about that.

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “clos”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Latin clausum, clausus.

clos oblique singular, m (oblique plural clos, nominative singular clos, nominative plural clos)

1. enclosed outdoor area, such as a field or a paddock

• Norman: clios (Jersey), cllos (continental Normandy)

clos

1. past participle of clore

• English: close (in part)
• French: clos

• ·closs

• IPA^(key): [klos]

·clos

1. passive singular preterite prototonic of ro·cluinethar

clos m

1. checkmate
2. (music) rest

• cuir clos air (“to checkmate”)

• IPA^(key): /kloːs/

Borrowed from English close.

clos m (plural closydd)

1. close, enclosure

   Synonyms: cae, caeadle, ffald

2. arbor, bower

   Synonyms: llanerch, deildy

3. cloister, quire

   Synonyms: clawstr, côr, llys

4. yard, farmyard

   Synonyms: buarth, iard, ffald

Borrowed from English clothes.

clos m (plural closau, diminutive closyn)

1. trousers, breeches

   Synonyms: trywsus, llodrau, britshys

Borrowed from English clause.

clos m (plural closiau or closau)

1. alternative form of claws (“clause”)

Borrowed from English close.

clos (feminine singular clos, plural clos, equative closed, comparative closach, superlative closaf)

1. alternative form of clòs (“close, tight, muggy”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

clos f

1. feminine singular of clws, alternative form of tlos (“pretty”)

Inherited from Middle Welsh klows, from Middle English cloves.

clos pl

1. alternative form of clofs (“cloves”)

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “clos”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “clos”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies