loud

Signification (English)

1. Of great intensity.
2. Noisy.
3. Not subtle or reserved, brash.
4. Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.
5. (slang) High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality.

fort

bruyant

tape-à-l’œil

d’un mauvais goût

d’après

loud-voiced

make noise

speaker system

make a racket

sing loudly

speaker unit

speak loudly

squawk box

talk loudly

full-sounding

gawdy

with a thundering noise

ball-breaker

ball-buster

loud-sounding

intercom speaker

loudspeaker system

be too noisy

laugh loudly

frippish

insistent

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/laʊd/

Inherited from moyen anglais

Cognate with écossais

Cognate with suédois

Cognate with frison occidental

Cognate with néerlandais

Cognate with bas-allemand

Cognate with allemand

Cognate with irlandais

Cognate with gallois

Cognate with latin

Cognate with grec ancien

Cognate with albanais

Cognate with Classical Armenian

Cognate with slavon d’église

Cognate with sanskrit

Inherited from ancien anglais

In summary

From Middle English loude, loud, lud, from Old English hlūd (“loud, noisy, sounding, sonorous”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlūd, from Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz, *hlūþaz (“heard”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewtos (“heard, famous”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”). More at listen. Cognates Akin to Scots loud, lowd (“loud”), Swedish ljud, West Frisian lûd (“loud”), Dutch luid (“loud”), Low German lud (“loud”), German laut (“loud”), Irish clú (“repute”), Welsh clywed (“heard”), clod (“praise”), Latin laudare (“praise”), Tocharian A/B klots/klautso 'ear', klyostär 'heard', Ancient Greek κλυτός (klutós, “famous”), Albanian quaj (“to name, call”), shquar (“famous, notorious”), Old Armenian լու (lu, “the act of hearing”), Old Church Slavonic слава (slava, “glory”), слово (slovo, “word”), Sanskrit श्रव (śráva, “glory”).

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