infame

See also: infâme and infamé

English

Etymology

Latin infamare, from īnfāmis (“infamous”): compare French infamer, Italian infamare. See infamous.

Verb

infame (third-person singular simple present infames, present participle infaming, simple past and past participle infamed)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To defame; to make infamous.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
    • Francis Bacon
      Livia is infamed for the poisoning of her husband.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for infame in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfāmis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

infame (masculine and feminine plural infames)

  1. infamous

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

Verb

infame

  1. first-person singular present indicative of infamer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of infamer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of infamer
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of infamer
  5. second-person singular imperative of infamer

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfāmis.

Adjective

infame m or f (plural infames)

  1. infamous

German

Adjective

infame

  1. inflected form of infam

Italian

Etymology

From Latin īnfāmis.

Adjective

infame (masculine and feminine plural infami)

  1. infamous
  2. vile
  3. awful, dreadful

Latin

Adjective

īnfāme

  1. nominative neuter singular of īnfāmis
  2. accusative neuter singular of īnfāmis
  3. vocative neuter singular of īnfāmis

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin īnfāmis.

Pronunciation
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ĩ.ˈfa.mɨ/
  • Hyphenation: in‧fa‧me

Adjective

infame m or f (plural infames, comparable)

  1. infamous

Derived terms

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfāmis.

Adjective

infame (plural infames)

  1. awful, dreadful
  2. infamous, vile, wicked

Derived terms
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