fama

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin fama, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-mā-, from *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”).

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.mə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ma/

fama f (plural fames)

1. fame

fama

1. to be whipped

• fammi

• IPA^(key): /ˈfama/

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• Hyphenation: fa‧ma
• Rhymes: -ama

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

1. famous

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

fama f (plural fame)

1. fame, renown
2. reputation, name
3. report, rumor

• (fame): celebrità, notorietà
• (reputation): reputazione, nome

• famigerato

fama

1. (Banawá) two

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfaː.ma/

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fāma f (genitive fāmae); first declension

1. fame
2. rumour
3. reputation
   • 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, Heroides 17.17, (translation Benham's Book of Quotations 1948):

     Fama tamen clara est; et adhuc sine crimine vixi.

     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:

     Multi famam, conscientiam pauci verentur.

     Many fear their reputation, few their conscience.

   Dimicanti de fama deesse.

   To abandon one whose reputation is attacked.

4. vocative singular of fāma

fāmā

1. ablative singular of fāma

First declension.

• īnfāmis

• 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, 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
    

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɐ.mɐ/
• Hyphenation: fa‧ma
• Rhymes: -ama

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.

• famoso

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfama/

fama f (plural famas)

1. reputation
2. fame

• mala fama

• famoso