Etymology, English, Conclude

Etymology

From Middle English concluden, borrowed from Latin conclūdere (“to shut up, close, end”), present active infinitive of conclūdō, from con- +‎ claudō,  from Proto-Italic *klaudō, from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“key, hook, nail”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kən.ˈkluːd/

Verb

conclude (third-person singular simple present concludes, present participle concluding, simple past and past participle concluded)

1. (intransitive) To end; to come to an end.

   The story concluded with a moral.

2. (transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
3. (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.

   to conclude a bargain

4. (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.

   From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.

5. (obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
6. To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; generally in the passive.

   The defendant is concluded by his own plea.

    A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.

7. (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
8. (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine.
9. (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)