fame
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From Middle English, from Old French fame (“celebrity, renown”), from Latin fāma (“talk, rumor, report, reputation”), from Proto-Indo-European *bheh₂mā-, from Proto-Indo-European *bheH₂- (“to speak, say, tell”). Cognate with Ancient Greek φήμη (phēmē, “talk”). Related also to Latin for (“speak, say”, v), Old English bōian (“to boast”), Old English bēn (“prayer, request”), Old English bannan (“to summon, command, proclaim”). More at ban.
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fame (uncountable)
- (rare) What is said or reported; gossip, rumour.
- 1667, There went a fame in Heav'n that he ere long / Intended to create, and therein plant / A generation, whom his choice regard / Should favour — John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 651-4
- The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of.
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state of being famous
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fame (third-person singular simple present fames, present participle faming, simple past and past participle famed)
- (transitive) to make (someone or something) famous
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fame
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fame f. (plural fames)
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- (hunger): apetito
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fame
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From Latin fames.
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fame f. (plural fami)
- hunger
- Ho fame. - I'm hungry.
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fame f.
- Plural form of fama.
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fame
- ablative singular of famēs
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Latin femina.
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fame f. (oblique plural fames, nominative singular fame, nominative plural fames)
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- French: femme
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