repute

See also: réputé, reputé, and répute

English

Etymology

From Old French reputer, from Latin 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 (usually uncountable, plural reputes)

1. Reputation, especially a good reputation.
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     At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

Related terms

• disrepute
• reputable
• reputation
• ill repute

Translations

reputation, especially a good reputation

• Chinese: 聲望, 声望 (shēngwàng)
• Czech: reputace f
• Dutch: reputatie de
• French: réputation (fr) f
• German: Ruf (de) m
• Greek: φήμη (el) f (fími)
• Hebrew: מוֹנִיטִין (monitin) m pl, שֵׁם (shaym) m
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• Italian: rinomanza f
• Japanese: 評判 (ja)
• Korean: 평판 (ko) (pyeongpan)
• Portuguese: reputação (pt) f
• Russian: до́брая сла́ва
• Spanish: reputación (es) f

Verb

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
   • Bible, Job xviii. 3

     Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

   • Shakespeare

     The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.

   • William Wollaston

     If the comparison could be made, I verily believe these would be found to be almost infinituple of the other; which ought therefore to be reputed as nothing.

Translations

to attribute or credit something to something

• Chinese: 對聲望, 对声望 (duì shēngwàng)
• Hebrew: נֶחְשַׁב (nekhshav), חָשַׁב ל (khashav le-)
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• Portuguese: reputar (pt)

Further reading

• “repute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “repute”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “repute”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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Portuguese

Verb

repute

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of reputar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of reputar
3. third-person singular negative imperative of reputar
4. third-person singular imperative of reputar

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Spanish

Verb

repute

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.