laud

See also: Laud and laúd

English

WOTD – 27 February 2010

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French lauder, from Latin laudō, laudāre, from laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”), from echoic Proto-Indo-European root *leh₁wdʰ- (“song, sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔːd/
• IPA^(key): /lɔd/
• IPA^(key): /lɑd/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -ɔːd

Noun

laud (countable and uncountable, plural lauds)

1. Praise or glorification.
   • Shakespeare

     Laud be to God.

   • Tyndals

     So do well and thou shalt have laud of the same.

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

Translations

praise or glorification

• Bulgarian: похвала (bg) f (pohvala), възхвала (bg) f (vǎzhvala)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 讚揚／赞扬 (zh) (zànyáng), 讚頌／赞颂 (zh) (zànsòng)

• Dutch: prijzen (nl), loven (nl), ophemelen (nl)
• Esperanto: laŭdo
• Finnish: ylistys (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: lode (it) f
• Portuguese: louva f
• Romanian: laudă (ro) f
• Russian: хвала́ (ru) f (xvalá), восхвале́ние (ru) n (vosxvalénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: slaviti (sh)

hymn of praise

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 讚頌／赞颂 (zh) (zànsòng), 讚美詩／赞美诗 (zh) (zànměishī)

• Dutch: lofzang (nl) c
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: ylistyslaulu (fi)
• Portuguese: louvor (pt) f
• Serbo-Croatian: lauda f, hvalospjev (sh) m

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
• Bulgarian: хваля (bg) (hvalja), славя (bg) (slavja)
• Catalan: lloar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 讚揚／赞扬 (zh) (zànyáng), 讚頌／赞颂 (zh) (zànsòng), 讚美／赞美 (zh) (zànměi)

• Esperanto: laŭdi
• Finnish: ylistää (fi)
• French: glorifier (fr), célébrer (fr), exalter (fr)
• German: preisen (de)
• Ido: laudar (io)
• Italian: lodare (it), glorificare (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: laudo (la)
• Maori: whakahira
• Portuguese: louvar (pt)
• Romanian: lăuda (ro)
• Russian: восхваля́ть (ru) impf (vosxvaljátʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: slaviti (sh)
• Spanish: loar (es)
• Telugu: మెచ్చుకొను (te) (meccukonu)
• Vietnamese: khen ngợi (vi)
• Zulu: -bonga, -dumisa

See also

• canonical hours
• lauder

Further reading

• “laud”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “laud”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “laud”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Auld, Daul, Dula, auld, dual, udal

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Estonian

Etymology

Likely from Proto-Germanic *flauþ or *flaut. Compare Swedish flöte. Also compare Lithuanian plautas and Latvian plauts.

Noun

laud (genitive laua, partitive lauda)

1. board
2. plank
3. table

Declension

Declension of laud (irregular)

	singular	plural
nominative	laud	lauad
genitive	laua	laudade
partitive	lauda	laude
illative	lauda, lauasse	laudadesse
inessive	lauas	laudades
elative	lauast	laudadest
allative	lauale	lauadadele
adessive	laual	laudadel
ablative	laualt	laudadelt
translative	lauaks	laudadeks
terminative	lauani	laudadeni
essive	lauana	laudadena
abessive	lauata	laudadeta
comitative	lauaga	laudadega

Derived terms

• lauamäng

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Friulian

Etymology

From Latin laus, laudem.

Noun

laud m (plural lauds)

1. praise, commendation

Related terms

• laudâ

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Ilocano

Noun

laud

1. west

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Ludian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish lauta.

Noun

laud

1. board
2. plank

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Veps

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Related to Finnish lauta, Estonian laud.

Noun

laud

1. board
2. plank

Derived terms

• laudasine
• čukalduzlaud
• ikunlaud
• lumilaud
• möndlaud
• potklaud
• tedotuzlaud
• tölaud
• laudkund
• laudsein

References

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “доска”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [la.ˈud]

Noun

laud (nominative plural lauds)

1. lark (bird)

Declension

declension of laud

	singular	plural
nominative	laud	lauds
genitive	lauda	laudas
dative	laude	laudes
accusative	laudi	laudis
vocative 1	o laud!	o lauds!
predicative 2	laudu	laudus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Hypernyms

• böd
• nim

Hyponyms

• hilaud
• hilaudül
• jilaud
• jilaudül
• laudil
• laudül

Derived terms

• brüyäralaud (“woodlark”),
• felalaud (“skylark”), Alauda arvensis
• töpalaud (“crested lark”), Galerida cristata