fama

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See also: Fama and fāmá

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin fama, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-mā-, from *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

fama f (plural fames)

  1. fame

References[edit]

  • “fama” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chickasaw[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare Choctaw fama.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

fama

  1. (stative, intransitive) to be whipped

Inflection[edit]

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Class II Verb Subjects (Stative)
Verbs beginning with a consonant. Singular Plural Inclusive Tri-Plural
1st-person (I, we) safama
sa-fama		 pofama
po-fama		 hapofama
hapo-fama
2nd-person (you, you all) chifama
chi-fama		 hachifama
hachi-fama
3rd-person (he, she, it, they) fama (hoo)fama
(hoo-)fama

Derived terms[edit]

Esperanto[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈfama]
  • Audio:
    (file)
  • Rhymes: -ama
  • Hyphenation: fa‧ma

Adjective[edit]

fama (accusative singular faman, plural famaj, accusative plural famajn)

  1. famous

Related terms[edit]

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin fāma, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-mā-, from *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈfa.ma/
  • Rhymes: -ama
  • Hyphenation: fà‧ma

Noun[edit]

fama f (plural fame)

  1. fame, renown
    Synonyms: celebrità, notorietà
  2. reputation, name
    Synonyms: reputazione, nome
  3. report, rumor

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • fama in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Jamamadí[edit]

Numeral[edit]

fama

  1. (Banawá) two

References[edit]

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Italic *fāmā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂meh₂, from *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”). Cognate to Ancient Greek φήμη (phḗmē, “talk”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

fāma f (genitive fāmae); first declension

  1. fame
    Synonyms: indicium, nūntius, notitia
  2. rumour, talk, opinion, report
    • c. 195 BCE, Plautus, Trinummus 1.2.149:
      hascine propter rēs maledicās fāmās ferunt.
      Is it on account of these things that they spread slanderous reports?
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.532–533:
      “Oenōtrī coluēre virī; nunc fāma minōrēs
      Ītaliam dīxisse ducīs dē nōmine gentem.”
      “Oenotrian men tilled [the land]; now rumor [has it that their] descendants call the nation ‘Italy’ after the name of its leader, [Italus].”
  3. reputation
    Dīmīcantī dē fāmā dēesse.
    To abandon one whose reputation is attacked.
    • 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, The Heroines 17.17, (translation Benham's Book of Quotations 1948):
      Fāma tamen clāra est; et adhūc sine crīmine vīxī.
      My good name is nevertheless unstained; and so far I have lived without blame.
    • 61 CE – c. 112 CE, Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 3.20.9:
      Multī fāmam, conscientiam paucī verentur.
      Many fear their reputation, few their conscience.
  4. Fama, personified as a fast-moving, malicious goddess, the daughter of Terra. From the Greek φήμη, Pheme. Typically translated from the Latin as “Rumor.”
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.173–174:
      Extemplō Libyae magnās it Fāma per urbēs —
      Fāma, malum quā nōn aliud vēlōcius ūllum.
      Straightaway Rumor runs through the great cities of Libya – Rumor, than whom [there is] not any other evil more swift.

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fāma fāmae
Genitive fāmae fāmārum
Dative fāmae fāmīs
Accusative fāmam fāmās
Ablative fāmā fāmīs
Vocative fāma fāmae

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • → Albanian: famë
  • Asturian: fama
  • Catalan: fama
  • Dutch: faam
  • English: fame
  • French: fameux
  • Italian: fama
  • Old French: fame
  • Piedmontese: fama
  • → Polish: fama
  • Portuguese: fama
  • Romanian: faimă
  • Spanish: fama

Noun[edit]

fāmā

  1. ablative singular of fāma

References[edit]

  • “fama”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fama in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be able to endure hunger and thirst: famis et sitis patientem esse
    • report says; people say: rumor, fama, sermo est or manat
    • a rumour is prevalent: rumor, fama viget
    • a report is spreading imperceptibly: fama serpit (per urbem)
    • to spread a rumour: famam dissipare
    • to know from hearsay: auditione et fama accepisse aliquid
    • to gain distinction: gloriam, famam sibi comparare
    • to detract from a person's reputation, wilfully underestimate a person: de gloria, fama alicuius detrahere
    • to detract from a person's reputation, wilfully underestimate a person: alicuius famam, laudem imminuere
    • to render obscure, eclipse a person: obscurare alicuius gloriam, laudem, famam (not obscurare aliquem)
    • to have regard for one's good name: famae servire, consulere
    • to live up to one's reputation: famam ante collectam tueri, conservare
    • to gain the reputation of cruelty: famam crudelitatis subire (Catil. 4. 6. 12)
    • to leave a great reputation behind one: magnam sui famam relinquere

Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin fāma. Doublet of fejm.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

fama f

  1. renown, rumour
    Synonym: pogłoska

Declension[edit]

Declension of fama
singular
nominative fama
genitive famy
dative famie
accusative famę
instrumental famą
locative famie
vocative famo

Further reading[edit]

  • fama in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • fama in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese fama, from Latin fāma, from Proto-Indo-European *bheh₂-mā-, from *bheh₂- (“to speak”).

Pronunciation[edit]

 
 

  • Rhymes: -ɐmɐ
  • Hyphenation: fa‧ma

Noun[edit]

fama f (plural famas)

  1. reputation
    Esse homem tem má fama.
    That man has a bad reputation.
  2. fame
    Ele entrou para o hall da fama.
    He entered the hall of fame.

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Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Spanish fama, probably a semi-learned borrowing from Latin fāma (partly due to phonetic reasons: initial f did not become h, and because it preserved the Latin sense perfectly; additionally its derivatives are also learned[1]), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bheh₂-mā-, from *bheh₂- (“to speak”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈfama/ [ˈfa.ma]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ama
  • Syllabification: fa‧ma

Noun[edit]

fama f (plural famas)

  1. reputation
  2. fame

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Further reading[edit]

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