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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of plaudō.
Participle
plausus (feminine plausa, neuter plausum); first/second-declension participle
- struck
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Noun
plausus m (genitive plausūs); fourth declension
- applause, cheers
86 CE – 103 CE,
Martial,
Epigrammata IX.33:
- Audieris in quo, Flacce, balneo plausum
- In whichever bath the sound of applause can be heard
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
References
- “plausus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “plausus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- plausus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- plausus 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: plausum dare (alicui)
- “plausus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers