infame

See also: infâme and infamé

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin infamare, from īnfāmis (“infamous”): compare French infamer, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian infamare. See infamous.

Verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To defame; to make infamous.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

   • Francis Bacon

     Livia is infamed for the poisoning of her husband.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “infame”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Famine, famine, imafen

---

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfāmis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [iɱˈfa.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [iɱˈfa.me]

Adjective

infame m or f (masculine and feminine plural infames)

1. infamous

Derived terms

• infamement

Related terms

• infàmia
• fama

---

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: infament, infames

Verb

infame

1. first-person singular present indicative of infamer
2. third-person singular present indicative of infamer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of infamer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of infamer
5. second-person singular imperative of infamer

---

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfāmis.

Adjective

infame m or f (plural infames)

1. infamous

Related terms

• infamia

---

German

Adjective

infame

1. inflection of infam:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

---

Italian

Etymology

From Latin īnfāmis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈfa.me/

Adjective

1. infamous
2. vile

   Synonyms: cattivo, meschino, vile

3. (colloquial, figurative) awful, dreadful

   Synonym: pessimo

   un tempo infame ― awful weather

Related terms

• infamia
• fama

---

Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) īnfāme

1. nominative neuter singular of īnfāmis
2. accusative neuter singular of īnfāmis
3. vocative neuter singular of īnfāmis

---

Portuguese

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin īnfāmis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ĩ.ˈfa.mɨ/
• Hyphenation: in‧fa‧me

Adjective

1. infamous

Derived terms

• infamemente

Related terms

• infâmia

---

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfāmis.

Adjective

infame m or f (masculine and feminine plural infames)

1. awful, dreadful
2. infamous, vile, wicked

Derived terms

• infamemente

Related terms

• infamia
• fama