plaudo
Dictionary entries
- Entry →plaudo, plaudere, plausi, plausus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
clap, strike (w/flat hand), pat; beat (wings); applaud; express (dis)approval;
sg. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Mostellaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...PHILOL. Lepide dictum de atramento atque ebore. euge, plaudo Scaphae. PHILEM. Tum tu igitur cedo purpurissum..."Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...voces sic solitus: 'populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.' Tantalus..."