plausus

plausus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of plaudō.

Participle

plausus (feminine plausa, neuter plausum); first/second-declension participle

1. struck

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	plausus	plausa	plausum		plausī	plausae	plausa
Genitive	plausī	plausae	plausī		plausōrum	plausārum	plausōrum
Dative	plausō		plausō		plausīs
Accusative	plausum	plausam	plausum		plausōs	plausās	plausa
Ablative	plausō	plausā	plausō		plausīs
Vocative	plause	plausa	plausum		plausī	plausae	plausa

Noun

plausus m (genitive plausūs); fourth declension

1. applause, cheers
   • 38 CE – 104 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.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	plausus	plausūs
Genitive	plausūs	plausuum
Dative	plausuī	plausibus
Accusative	plausum	plausūs
Ablative	plausū	plausibus
Vocative	plausus	plausūs

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