Translation
to applaud, to clap
Word origin
From Latin applaudere, to strike together, built on ad ('to') and plaudere ('to clap'). English applaud, plaudit and explode all come from plaudere, the last of them by way of driving an actor off the stage with noise.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- applaudere
- English cognates
- applaud, plaudit, explode
Examples
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The whole village applauded after the last song.
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We applauded with both hands.
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In the theatre people applaud after the show.
works with or without an object: you can after the
song, or . Mind the , which is one syllable and
one sound, so the word runs a-PLAŬ-di in three beats rather than four.
The noun for the noise itself is aplaŭdo, and a village hall full of it
is o.
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