English
occlude
Occlude comes from Latin occlūdere.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEocclūdere
- Englishearliest quotation 2020occlude
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEocclūdere
- Englishearliest quotation 2020occlude
Earliest quotation: 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life: “His reflection is occluded by the mist on the…”.
A compound of ob ‘before’ + claudere ‘to shut’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Italic *op ‘towards’
Latin ob ‘before’
Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w- ‘key, hook, nail’
Proto-Italic *klaudō ‘to close’
Latin claudō ‘to shut’
Every English word from Latin occlūdere
Today it means
verb To obstruct, cover, or otherwise block (an opening, a portion of an image, etc.).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin occlūdere / occlude