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- Latin · derived fromapplaudō
- English todayapplausive
Formed as *applaus- (the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin applaudō) + -ive, thus resembling a regular Anglicisation of a hypothetical Latin etymon of the form *applausīvus. By surface analysis, applause + -ive.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.