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fame afme fmae mfae amfe mafe faem afem feam efam aefm eafm fmea mfea fema efma mefa emfa amef maef aemf eamf meaf emaf

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Definitions and meaning of fame

fame

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

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

• “fame” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “fame” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “fame” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “fame” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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

Noun

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

1. wife, female partner
2. woman

Usage notes

• Unlike in modern French, fame usually refers to a wife, while dame usually refers to a woman

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; foume; fenme, 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

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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