occluse

English

Etymology

From Latin occlusus, past participle. See occlude.

Adjective

occluse (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) shut; closed
    • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters: [], London: [] T. N[ewcomb] for J[ohn] Martyn printer to the R[oyal] Society, [], →OCLC:
      [it] gives their Speech [German] a different Tang from ours: to soften the Occluse Gingival Consonants, by a kind of Mixture or ſoft addition of a Spirital in the ſame Articulation, to a Vocal producing the Vowel

References

occluse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /okˈklu.ze/
  • Rhymes: -uze
  • Hyphenation: oc‧clù‧se

Participle

occluse f pl

  1. feminine plural of occluso

Verb

occluse

  1. third-person singular past historic of occludere

Latin

Participle

occlūse

  1. vocative masculine singular of occlūsus
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