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
    • 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.

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
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