laud

English

WOTD – 27 February 2010    

Etymology

From Old French lauder, from Latin laudō, from laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /lɔːd/
• (US) IPA: /lɔd/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /lɑd/
• Rhymes: -ɔːd

Noun

laud (plural lauds)

1. Praise or glorification.
2. Hymn of praise.
3. (in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins.

Translations

praise or glorification

• Dutch: prijzen (nl), loven (nl), ophemelen (nl)
• Finnish: ylistys (fi)

• Italian: lode (it) f
• Russian: хвала (ru) f (xvala), восхваление (ru) n (vosxvalenije)

hymn of praise

• Dutch: lofzang (nl) c

• Finnish: ylistyslaulu (fi)

Verb

laud (third-person singular simple present lauds, present participle lauding, simple past and past participle lauded)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to praise, to glorify
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke I:

     And hys mought was opened immediatly, and hys tonge, and he spake lawdynge god.

Translations

to praise, to glorify

• Albanian: lëvdoj (sq), lavdëroj (sq)
• Aromanian: alavdu (sq)
• Finnish: ylistää (fi)
• French: glorifier (fr), célébrer (fr), exalter (fr)
• German: preisen (de)
• Ido: laudar (io)
• Italian: lodare (it), glorificare (it)

• Romanian: lăuda (ro)
• Russian: восхвалять (ru) (vosxvaljatʹ)
• Spanish: loar (es)
• Telugu: మెచ్చుకొను (te) (mecchukonu)
• Zulu: -bonga (zu), -dumisa (zu)

See also

• canonical hours

External links

• laud in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• laud in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• laud at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• auld, dual, udal

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Estonian

Noun

laud (genitive laua, partitive lauda)

1. table

Declension

This Estonian noun needs an inflection-table template.

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Ilocano

Noun

laud

1. west

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Volapük

Noun

laud (plural lauds)

1. lark (bird)

Declension

declension of laud

	singular	plural
nominative	laud	lauds
genitive	lauda	laudas
dative	laude	laudes
accusative	laudi	laudis
predicative	laudu	laudus
vocative	o laud!	o lauds!