# infame
## English
### Etymology

Latin īnfāmāre, from īnfāmis (“infamous”): compare French infamer, Italian infamare. See infamous.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪnˈfeɪm/
* Homophone: enfame (one pronunciation)

### Verb

infame (third-person singular simple present infames, present participle infaming, simple past and past participle infamed)
* (transitive, obsolete) To defame; to make infamous.
** 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:sapience, hitherto obscured, infamed
** 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Empire”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:Livia is infamed for the poisoning of her husband.

#### Related terms

* osculum infame

### References

* “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: (Central, Balearic) [iɱˈfa.mə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [iɱˈfa.me]

### Adjective

infame m or f (masculine and feminine plural infames)
* infamous

#### Derived terms

* infamement

#### Related terms

* infàmia
* fama

## French
### Pronunciation

* Homophones: infament, infames

### Verb

infame
* inflection of infamer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

## Galician
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin īnfāmis.

### Adjective

infame m or f (plural infames)
* infamous

#### Related terms

* infamia

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

infame
* inflection of infam:
** strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
** strong nominative/accusative plural
** weak nominative all-gender singular
** weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfāmis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /inˈfa.me/
* Rhymes: -ame
* Hyphenation: in‧fà‧me

### Adjective

infame (plural infami)
* infamous
* vile
    Synonyms: cattivo, meschino, vile
* (colloquial, figurative) awful, dreadful
    Synonym: pessimo
    un tempo infame ― awful weather

### Noun

infame m (plural infami, feminine infame)
* villain, scoundrel
* snitch, rat, informant or informer, traitor, turncoat

#### Related terms

* infamia
* fama

## Latin
### Adjective

īnfāme
* nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of īnfāmis

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfāmis.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩˈfɐ̃.mi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩˈfɐ̃.mi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ĩˈfɐ.me/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ĩˈfɐ.mɨ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ĩˈfɐ.mɨ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ĩˈfa.mɨ/
* Hyphenation: in‧fa‧me

### Adjective

infame m or f (plural infames)
* infamous

#### Derived terms

* infamemente

#### Related terms

* infâmia

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfāmis.

### Adjective

infame m or f (masculine and feminine plural infames)
* awful, dreadful
* infamous, vile, wicked

#### Derived terms

* infamemente

#### Related terms

* fama
* infamia

### Verb

infame
* inflection of infamar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “infame”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10