claudus

• clūdus, clōdus

From some extension of *kelh₂- (“to strike, cut”), leading to derivatives meaning "broken or cut off," see also Russian колдыка (koldyka, “lame”) and Ancient Greek κολοβός (kolobós, “curtailed, broken”); the root is also the ultimate source of English halt.[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈklau̯.dus/, [ˈkɫ̪äu̯d̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈklau̯.dus/, [ˈkläːu̯d̪us]

claudus (feminine clauda, neuter claudum); first/second-declension adjective

1. limping, halting, lame, crippled

   Synonym: dēbilis

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Matthew 11:5:

     Caeci vident, claudi ambulant […]

     The blind see, the lame walk […]

2. (figurative, rare, usually poetic) wavering, imperfect, defective
3. (figurative) halting, wavering, uncertain, untrustworthy

First/second-declension adjective.

• “claudus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “claudus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• claudus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• claudus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.