fame

fame

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English

Etymology

From Middle English fame, from Old French fame (celebrity, renown), itself borrowed from Latin fāma (talk, rumor, report, reputation), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂-meh₂, from *bʰeh₂- (to speak, say, tell). Cognate with Ancient Greek φήμη (phḗmē, talk). Related also to Latin for (speak, say, verb), Old English bōian (to boast), Old English bēn (prayer, request), Old English bannan (to summon, command, proclaim). More at ban.

Displaced native Old English hlīsa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /feɪm/
  • Rhymes: -eɪm

Noun

fame (usually uncountable, plural fames)

  1. (now rare) Something said or reported; gossip, rumour.
  2. One's reputation.
  3. The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of.
    Synonym: famousness
    Antonyms: obscurity, unknownness

Hyponyms

  • herostratic fame

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

fame (third-person singular simple present fames, present participle faming, simple past and past participle famed)

  1. (transitive) to make (someone or something) famous

Related terms

  • famed
  • famous

See also

  • renown

Anagrams

  • FEMA, FMEA, mafe

Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *faminem or *famen, from Latin famēs (hunger), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (to disappear).

Noun

fame f (plural fames)

  1. hunger

Related terms

  • afamiar

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfame]
  • Rhymes: -ame
  • Hyphenation: fa‧me

Adverb

fame

  1. famously

Related terms

  • fama

Galician

Alternative forms

  • fome

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *fam(i)ne(m) or more likely *famen, from Latin famēs (hunger), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (to disappear). Cognate with Portuguese fome, French faim, Italian fame and Romanian foame.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfamɪ]

Noun

fame f (plural fames)

  1. hunger
    Synonyms: apetito, larica
  2. famine
    • 1419, Pérez Rodríguez, F. (ed.), "San Jorge de Codeseda: un monasterio femenino bajomedieval", in Studia Monastica (33), page 84:

Derived terms

References

  • Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (20062022) “fame”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (20062013), “fame”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (20032018), “fame”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (20142024), “fame”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Interlingua

Noun

fame

  1. hunger

Italian

Etymology

From Latin famēs (hunger)/Latin famem (hunger), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (to disappear). Compare Galician fame, French faim, Portuguese fome and Romanian foame.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfa.me/
  • Rhymes: -ame
  • Hyphenation: fà‧me

Noun

fame f (plural fami)

  1. hunger
    • 2006, Società Biblica di Ginevra, Nuova Riveduta 2006, Psalm 33:19:

Derived terms

Related terms

  • famelico (ravenous)

Noun

fame f pl

  1. plural of fama

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfa.me/, [ˈfämɛ]

  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.me/, [ˈfäːme]

famē f

  1. ablative singular of famēs (hunger)

References

  • fame in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • fame”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

From French femme (woman).

Noun

fame

  1. woman

References

  • Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Old French

Alternative forms

  • fam, feme

Etymology

From Latin femina.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfã.mə/

Noun

fame oblique singularf (oblique plural fames, nominative singular fame, nominative plural fames)

  1. wife, female partner
  2. woman, especially one of lower social status (dame being the usual word for upper-class women)

Descendants

  • Bourbonnais-Berrichon: fonne
  • Bourguignon: fanne, fonne
  • Champenois: fanme, fonme, fomme
  • Gallo: fame, fom
  • Lorrain: fomme
  • Middle French: femme (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: femme, fâme, faume, faumme (Guernsey), foume (continental Normandy), fenme (Cotentin), foume, fenme
  • Picard: fanme, féme, feume
  • Walloon: feme
  • Middle English: femme, feme
    • English: femme, feme

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • fome

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *fam(i)ne(m), or more likely *famen, from Latin famēs (hunger), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (to disappear). Cognate with Old Spanish fambre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfa.me/

Noun

fame f (plural fames)

  1. hunger
    • nen fame nen ſede. nen frio
      nor hunger nor thirst nor cold

Descendants

  • Fala: fomi
  • Galician: fame
  • Portuguese: fome

Spanish

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Asturian fame (hunger), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (to disappear). Cognate with Portuguese fome, French faim, Italian fame and Romanian foame. Doublet of hambre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfame/ [ˈfa.me]
  • Rhymes: -ame
  • Syllabification: fa‧me

Noun

fame f (plural fames)

  1. hunger
    Synonym: hambre
  2. famine

Further reading

  • “fame”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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