different between commend vs laud

English

Etymology

From Middle English commenden, from Old French comender, from Latin commend? (“commend, entrust to, commit, recommend”), from com- + mandare (“to commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand”) + dare (“to put”). Doublet of command.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??m?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

commend (third-person singular simple present commends, present participle commending, simple past and past participle commended)

1. (transitive) To congratulate or reward.

2. (transitive) To praise or acclaim.

   • Segrais on this Subject of a Heroe's ?hedding Tears, ob?erves that Hi?torians commend Alexander for weeping, when he read the mighty Actions of Achilles.

3. (transitive) To entrust or commit to the care of someone else.

   • Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.

4. (transitive) To mention by way of courtesy, implying remembrance and goodwill.
5. (transitive) To recommend.
   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

     Among the objects of knowledge, two especially […] commend themselves to our contemplation.

   • I commend vnto you Phebe our sister, which is a seruant of the Church which is at Cenchrea:

6. (transitive, dated) To adorn; to set off.

Related terms

• commendable
• commendation
• commendatory
• recommend

Translations

See also

• suggest
• consider
• approval

Noun

commend (plural commends)

1. (obsolete) Commendation; praise.
2. (obsolete, in the plural) Compliments; greetings.
   • 3 August 1621, James Howell, "to Dr. Thomas Prichard at Worcester House" in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ

     Hearty commends and much endeared love unto you.

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French lauder, from Latin laud?, laud?re, from laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”), from echoic Proto-Indo-European root *leh?wd?- (“song, sound”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /l?d/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /l?d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Noun

laud (countable and uncountable, plural lauds)

1. Praise or glorification.

   • 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.

Translations

Verb

laud (third-person singular simple present lauds, present participle lauding, simple past and past participle 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.

Translations

See also

• 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

Anagrams

• Auld, Daul, Dula, auld, dual, udal

Estonian

Etymology

Likely from Proto-Germanic *flauþ or *flaut. Compare Swedish flöte. Also compare Lithuanian plautas and Latvian plauts.

Noun

laud (genitive laua, partitive lauda)

1. board
2. plank
3. table

Declension

Derived terms

• lauamäng

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin laus, laudem.

Noun

laud m (plural lauds)

1. praise, commendation

Related terms

• laudâ

Ilocano

Noun

laud

1. west

Ludian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish lauta.

Noun

laud

1. board
2. plank

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?la.ud]

Verb

laud

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of l?uda

Veps

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Related to Finnish lauta, Estonian laud.

Noun

laud

1. board
2. plank

Inflection

Derived terms

• laudasine
• ?ukalduzlaud
• ikunlaud
• lumilaud
• möndlaud
• potklaud
• tedotuzlaud
• tölaud
• laudkund
• laudsein

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “?????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [la.?ud]

Noun

laud (nominative plural lauds)

1. lark (bird)

Declension

Hypernyms

• böd
• nim

Hyponyms

• hilaud
• hilaudül
• jilaud
• jilaudül
• laudil
• laudül

Derived terms

• brüyäralaud (“woodlark”), Lullula arborea
• felalaud (“skylark”), Alauda arvensis
• töpalaud (“crested lark”), Galerida cristata