Portuguese

Proper noun

Fama

1. Fama (municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Catalan

Noun

fama f ‎(plural fames)

1. fame

Chickasaw

Verb

fama

1. to be whipped

Related terms

• fammi

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfama/
• Hyphenation: fa‧ma

Adjective

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

1. famous

Related terms

• fame
• famo
• famulo
• famiĝi
• famigi
• bonfama
• bonfamo
• fifama
• senfama

Italian

Etymology

From Latin fāma.

Noun

fama f ‎(plural fame)

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

Synonyms

• (1) celebrità, notorietà
• (2) reputazione, nome

Derived terms

• famigerato

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfaːma/

Noun

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 fama

fāmā

1. ablative singular of fāma

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• īnfāmis

Descendants

References

• fama in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fama”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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
    

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

Related terms

• famoso

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin fāma.

Noun

fama f ‎(plural famas)

1. reputation
2. fame

Related terms

• famoso

Derived terms

• mala fama