repute

English

Etymology

From Old French reputer, from Latin reputo (“I count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider”), from re- (“again”) + puto (“I think”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -uːt

Noun

repute (uncountable)

1. Reputation, especially a good reputation.

Related terms

• disrepute
• reputable
• reputation
• ill repute

Translations

reputation, especially a good reputation

• Chinese: 聲望, 声望 (shēngwàng)
• Czech: reputace (cs) f
• Dutch: reputatie de
• French: réputation (fr) f
• German: Ruf (de) m
• Greek: φήμη (fími) f
• Hebrew: מוֹנִיטִין (monitin) m pl, שֵׁם (shaym) m

• Italian: rinomanza (it) f
• Japanese: 評判
• Korean: 평판 (pyeongpan)
• Russian: до́брая сла́ва
• Spanish: reputación (es) f

Verb

repute (third-person singular simple present reputes, present participle reputing, simple past and past participle reputed)

1. (transitive) To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
2. (transitive) To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something

Translations

to attribute or credit something to something

• Chinese: 對聲望, 对声望 (duì shēngwàng)

• Hebrew: נֶחְשַׁב (nekhshav), חָשַׁב ל (khashav le-)

External links

• repute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• repute in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• repute at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Spanish

Verb

repute (infinitive reputar)

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of reputar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of reputar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of reputar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of reputar.