Etymograph

English

noninclusive

Noninclusive comes from Latin inclūsus ‘confined, enclosed’, from claudō ‘to shut up, close, lock’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*kleh₂w-1‘to close something’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*klaudō1‘to close’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEclaudō1‘to shut up, close, lock’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinclūdō1‘to shut up or in, confine, enclose, imprison, keep in’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinclūsus1‘confined, enclosed’
  6. Medieval Latinmoderninclūsīvus1
  7. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600inclusif1
  8. English1500–presentinclusive1
  9. Englishtodaynoninclusive1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English noninclusive

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*kleh₂w-Wiktionary, English noninclusive‘to close something’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*klaudōWiktionary, English noninclusive‘to close’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEclaudōWiktionary, English noninclusive‘to shut up, close, lock’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinclūdōWiktionary, English noninclusive‘to shut up or in, confine, enclose, imprison, keep in’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinclūsusWiktionary, English noninclusive‘confined, enclosed’
  6. Medieval LatinmoderninclūsīvusWiktionary, English noninclusive
  7. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600inclusifWiktionary, English noninclusive
  8. English1500–presentinclusiveWiktionary, English noninclusive
  9. EnglishtodaynoninclusiveWiktionary, English noninclusive

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w- ‘to close something’

include, cataract, conclave, subclavian, 27 more

through Proto-Italic *klaudō ‘to close’

closet, disclose, 25 more

through Latin claudō ‘to shut up, close, lock’

close, closure, exclusive, clause, conclusion, exclude, conclude, preclude, cloister, recluse, sluice, claustrophobia, cloture, occlusion, 28 more

through Latin inclūdō ‘to shut up or in, confine, enclose, imprison,…’

inclusion, enclose, 9 more

through English inclusive

inclusiveness, 7 more

Today it means

adj Not inclusive; excluding something.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “noninclusive”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w- / noninclusive

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