Word Origin Summary

Claustrum is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *kleh₂u-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• claustra

  Romanian · borrowed from

• claustro

  Spanish · borrowed from

• cloistre

  French · inherited from

• קלאוסטרופוביה

  Hebrew · derived from

• cloistre

  Middle English · borrowed from

• Klaustrophobie

  German · derived from

• claustrophilia

  English · derived from

• klostrofobi

  Turkish · borrowed from

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