Concluso

Concluso is a term most often found in Italian and, less commonly, in other Romance-language contexts, functioning as the past participle of the verb concludere and meaning “concluded” or “finished.” In Latin, the related participle is conclusus, from which the Romance forms derive. The word may appear as an adjective or as part of compound verb phrases, and it agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies (e.g., il progetto è concluso; la questione è conclusa).

In Italian usage, concluso is common in formal, administrative, and legal prose. It denotes the completion of a process, analysis, document, or discussion. Typical constructions include phrases like una riunione conclusa (a concluded meeting) or il processo è concluso (the case is closed). The feminine and plural forms—conclusa, conclusi, concluse—are used to match nouns of different genders and numbers. The term often appears in statements about results, decisions, or final reports.

Other Romance languages retain cognate forms with similar meanings. In Spanish and Portuguese, the direct equivalents are built from concluir or concluir, with terminology that translates to “concluded” or “finished,” though the exact form concluso is not standard in everyday Spanish.

In English-language contexts, concluso is not a common English word and typically appears only in translations or discussions of Italian texts. It also serves in linguistic references as a note on participial morphology and as an example of a past participle used in Romance-language grammar.

See also: conclude, conclusion, conclusio, conclusiveness.