applausus

• adplausus
• applōsus (post-Classical)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [apˈpɫau̯.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [apˈplaːu̯.sus]

From applaudō (“I clap, I applaud”) +‎ -tus (action noun-forming suffix).

applausus m (genitive applausūs); fourth declension

1. a clapping, flapping, or beating together of wings

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Statius to this entry?)

2. (Late Latin) clapping, applause
   • 1677, Baruch Spinoza, Ethica pars IV. LVIII:

     quia omnes vulgi captare applausus cupiunt

     since everyone desires to obtain the applauses of the common people

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Julius Firmicus Maternus to this entry?)

Fourth-declension noun.

• → English: applause
• Italian: applauso
• → Portuguese: aplauso
• → Spanish: aplauso

• applausŭs² in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “146/1”
• “applausus” on page 152/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

applausus (feminine applausa, neuter applausum); first/second-declension participle

1. stricken upon, clapped together

First/second-declension adjective.

• “applausus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• applausus¹ in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “146/1”