infame
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin infamare, from īnfāmis (“infamous”): compare French infamer, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian infamare. See infamous.
Verb
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- (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
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Catalan
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Adjective
infame m or f (masculine and feminine plural infames)
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French
Pronunciation
Verb
infame
- first-person singular present indicative of infamer
- third-person singular present indicative of infamer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of infamer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of infamer
- second-person singular imperative of infamer
Galician
Etymology
Adjective
infame m or f (plural infames)
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German
Adjective
infame
- inflection of infam:
Italian
Etymology
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Adjective
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- infamous
- vile
- (colloquial, figurative) awful, dreadful
- Synonym: pessimo
- un tempo infame ― awful weather
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Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) īnfāme
- nominative neuter singular of īnfāmis
- accusative neuter singular of īnfāmis
- vocative neuter singular of īnfāmis
Portuguese
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin īnfāmis.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: in‧fa‧me
Adjective
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Spanish
Etymology
Adjective
infame m or f (masculine and feminine plural infames)
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