plaudo

plaudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of plaudere

• paludo

• plōdō

From Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-u-d- (“to clap the hands”), from *pleh₂-u-h₂- (“palm of the hand”), from *pleh₂- (“flat”). Related to plautus (“trod flat”); see there for more cognates.^[1]

Older theories derived the word from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k-, the same root of Latin plēctō (“to braid”), plangō (“to strike”), plaga (“plague, wound”) and Ancient Greek πλήσσω (plḗssō, “to strike”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈplau̯.doː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈplau̯.do/,

plaudō (present infinitive plaudere, perfect active plausī, supine plausum); third conjugation

1. to strike, beat, clap
2. to applaud; to clap one's hands in token of approbation
   • c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitryon :

     Nunc, spectātōrēs, Iovis summī causā clārē plaudīte

     Now, spectators, for the sake of almighty Jove, applaud

     • Now, oh onlookers, clap ye your hands rapturously for Jupiter’s, the Most High’s, sake!

3. to approve
4. to strike hands to complete a bargain
5. (poetic, of wings) to beat, flap

• “plaudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “plaudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• plaudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to applaud, clap a person: plaudere (not applaudere)