fame
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From Latin fama ‘talk, rumor, report, reputation’, from Greek φήμη (phḗmē) ‘talk’, from Proto-Indo-European *bheH₂-mā-, from *bheH₂- ‘to speak’.
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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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to 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 f. (plural fames)
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- (hunger): apetito
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fame f. (plural fami)
- hunger
- Ho fame. - I'm hungry.
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fame f.
- Plural form of fama.