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Is fames a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word fames is a Scrabble US word. The word fames is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is fames a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word fames is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

FAMES,

4-letter words (9 found)

AMES,FAME,FEMS,MAES,MASE,MESA,SAFE,SAME,SEAM,

3-letter words (15 found)

AME,EAS,EFS,EMS,FAE,FAS,FEM,FES,MAE,MAS,MES,SAE,SAM,SEA,SMA,

2-letter words (11 found)

AE,AM,AS,EA,EF,EM,ES,FA,FE,MA,ME,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 37 words from fames according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of fames

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Definitions and meaning of fames

fames

Noun

fames

  1. plural of fame

Verb

fames

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of fame

Asturian

Noun

fames

  1. plural of fame

Galician

Noun

fames

  1. plural of fame

Latin

Etymology

Since Pokorny, traditionally derived from a Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”), and connected with affatim, fatīscō, fatīgō, fessus, as well as Old Irish ded- (“to vanish”), Old Norse dási (“slow”), and English daze. However, de Vaan rejects this etymology, considering the forms and semantics as too vague, and leaves the origin open.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.meːs/, [ˈfämeːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.mes/, [ˈfäːmes]

Noun

famēs f (genitive famis); third declension

  1. hunger

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

However, the ablative singular always has the ē of the fifth declension: famē.

Derived terms

  • famēlicus
  • famidus

Descendants

References

  • “fames”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fames”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fames in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 239

Old French

Noun

fames f pl

  1. oblique/nominative plural of fame

Spanish

Noun

fames f pl

  1. plural of fame

Source: wiktionary.org