Laudatus

Laudas is not the correct term here; the requested term is laudatus. Laudatus is the perfect passive participle of the Latin verb laudare, meaning “to praise.” The form translates as “having been praised” and also functions as an adjective meaning “praised.” In Latin, laudatus agrees with the noun it modifies in gender, number, and case: masculine singular laudatus, feminine singular laudata, neuter singular laudatum; masculine plural laudati, feminine plural laudatae, neuter plural laudata.

In use, laudatus is employed to express passive voice with forms of esse, as in Miles laudatus est, meaning “The soldier has been praised.” It can appear attributively before a noun, as in vir laudatus “the praised man,” or predicatively after a form of esse. In some contexts, laudatus can be used substantively, with the understood noun supplied by context, to mean “the praised one.”

Etymologically, laudatus is formed from the verb laudare (to praise) plus the suffix -atus, a common ending for perfect passive participles of first conjugation verbs. As a participial form, laudatus is frequently encountered in Latin prose and inscriptions, where it carries the combined sense of a passive action and a descriptive attribute.

Outside Latin, laudatus is mainly encountered in scholarly discussions of Latin grammar, linguistic descriptions, or translations. It is not a standalone word in modern English, but appears in Latin phrases and grammatical explanations to illustrate the use and morphology of perfect passive participles.