plausus

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

From plaudō +‎ -sus (action noun suffix).

plausus m (genitive plausūs); fourth declension

1. applause, cheers
   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata IX.33:

     Audieris in quo, Flacce, balneo plausum

     In whichever bath the sound of applause can be heard

2. (of wings) beating, flapping

Fourth-declension noun.

• → Italian: plauso

Perfect passive participle of plaudō.

plausus (feminine plausa, neuter plausum); first/second-declension participle

1. struck, beaten
2. applauded

First/second-declension adjective.

• “plausus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “plausus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "plausus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “plausus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to applaud, clap a person: plausum dare (alicui)
    
• “plausus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers