laudă
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (prescribed) /ˈla.u.də/, (also common) /ˈlaw.də/
- Rhymes: -audə
- Hyphenation: la‧u‧dă
Etymology 1
Deverbal from lăuda or inherited from Latin laudem, accusative of laus, from the Proto-Indo-European root *lēwt-, *lēwdʰ- (“song, sound”), from *lēw- (“to sound, resound, sing out”).
Noun
laudă f (plural laude)
- praise, commendation
- (religion) praise, glory
- Synonyms: glorie, mărire, preamărire, slavă
- boast, boasting
- (obsolete) threat (expression of intent to do something bad)
Derived terms
- lauda de sine nu miroase-a bine
- lăudos
Related terms
Etymology 2
Verb
laudă
- inflection of lăuda (“to praise; to brag”):
- third-person singular/plural indicative present
- imperative singular
Further reading
- “laudă”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025