laudとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /lɔːd/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /lɔd/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /lɑd/
• 韻: -ɔːd

名詞

laud (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 lauds)

1. Praise or glorification.
   • c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iv]:

     Laud be to God.

   • 1528, William Tyndale, The Obedience of a Christian Man

     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.

   Synonym: ainoi

動詞

laud (三人称単数 現在形 lauds, 現在分詞 lauding, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

   • 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecy010, page 485:

     The most recognised and lauded dictionary of Indian English today is Yule and Burnell’s Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Anglo-Indian Colloquial Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms; Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive, first published in 1886 and updated by William Crooke in 1903.

参考

• canonical hours
• lauder

Further reading

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

アナグラム

• Auld, Daul, Dula, auld, dual, udal