# fama
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fama, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-mā-, from *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈfa.mə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈfa.ma]

### Noun

fama f (plural fames)
* fame

### References

* “fama” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Chickasaw
### Etymology

Compare Choctaw fama.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fa.ma/

### Verb

fama
* (stative, intransitive) to be whipped

#### Inflection

| Verbs beginning with a consonant. | Singular | Plural | Inclusive Tri-Plural |
| 1st-person (I, we) | safama sa-fama | pofama po-fama | hapofama hapo-fama |
| 2nd-person (you, you all) | chifama chi-fama | hachifama hachi-fama | hachifama hachi-fama |
| 3rd-person (he, she, it, they) | fama | (hoo)fama (hoo-)fama | (hoo)fama (hoo-)fama |

#### Derived terms

* afama
* fahá̱ma
* fammi

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfama]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ama
* Hyphenation: fa‧ma

### Adjective

fama (accusative singular faman, plural famaj, accusative plural famajn)
* famous

#### Related terms

* bonfama
* bonfamo
* fame
* famigi
* famiĝi
* famo
* famulo
* fifama
* senfama

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fāma, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-mā-, from *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfa.ma/
* Rhymes: -ama
* Hyphenation: fà‧ma

### Noun

fama f (plural fame)
* fame, renown
    Synonyms: celebrità, notorietà
* reputation, name
    Synonyms: reputazione, nome
* report, rumor

#### Derived terms

* famigerato

### Further reading

* fama in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Jamamadí
### Numeral

fama
* (Banawá) two

### References

* 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fāmā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂meh₂, from *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”). Cognate to Ancient Greek φήμη (phḗmē, “talk”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfaː.ma/, [ˈfäːmä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfa.ma/, [ˈfäːmä]

### Noun

fāma f (genitive fāmae); first declension
* fame
    Synonyms: indicium, nūntius, notitia
* rumour, talk, opinion, report
** c. 195 BCE, Plautus, Trinummus 1.2.149:hascine propter rēs maledicās fāmās ferunt.Is it on account of these things that they spread slanderous reports?
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.532–533:“Oenōtrī coluēre virī; nunc fāma minōrēs Ītaliam dīxisse ducīs dē nōmine gentem.”“Oenotrian men tilled [the land]; now rumor [has it that their] descendants call the nation ‘Italy’ after the name of its leader, [Italus].”
* reputation
    Dīmīcantī dē fāmā dēesse.To abandon one whose reputation is attacked.
** 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, The Heroines 17.17, (translation Benham's Book of Quotations 1948):Fāma tamen clāra est; et adhūc sine crīmine vīxī.My good name is nevertheless unstained; and so far I have lived without blame.
** 61 CE – c. 112 CE, Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 3.20.9:Multī fāmam, conscientiam paucī verentur.Many fear their reputation, few their conscience.
* Fama, personified as a fast-moving, malicious goddess, the daughter of Terra. From the Greek φήμη, Pheme. Typically translated from the Latin as “Rumor.”
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.173–174:Extemplō Libyae magnās it Fāma per urbēs — Fāma, malum quā nōn aliud vēlōcius ūllum.Straightaway Rumor runs through the great cities of Libya – Rumor, than whom [there is] not any other evil more swift.

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* īnfāmis

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: famë
* Asturian: fama
* Catalan: fama
* Dutch: faam
* English: fame
* French: fameux
* Galician: fama
* Italian: fama
* Mirandese: fama
* Old French: fame
* Piedmontese: fama
* → Polish: fama
* Portuguese: fama
* Romanian: faimă
* Spanish: fama

### Noun

fāmā
* ablative singular of fāma

### References

* “fama”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* fama in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to be able to endure hunger and thirst: famis et sitis patientem esse report says; people say: rumor, fama, sermo est or manat a rumour is prevalent: rumor, fama viget a report is spreading imperceptibly: fama serpit (per urbem) to spread a rumour: famam dissipare to know from hearsay: auditione et fama accepisse aliquid to gain distinction: gloriam, famam sibi comparare to detract from a person's reputation, wilfully underestimate a person: de gloria, fama alicuius detrahere to detract from a person's reputation, wilfully underestimate a person: alicuius famam, laudem imminuere to render obscure, eclipse a person: obscurare alicuius gloriam, laudem, famam (not obscurare aliquem) to have regard for one's good name: famae servire, consulere to live up to one's reputation: famam ante collectam tueri, conservare to gain the reputation of cruelty: famam crudelitatis subire (Catil. 4. 6. 12) to leave a great reputation behind one: magnam sui famam relinquere

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fāma. Doublet of fejm.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfa.ma/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ama
* Syllabification: fa‧ma

### Noun

fama f
* renown, rumour
    Synonym: pogłoska

#### Declension
### Further reading

* fama in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* fama in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fama, from Latin fāma, from Proto-Indo-European *bheh₂-mā-, from *bheh₂- (“to speak”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈfɐ̃.mɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈfɐ̃.mɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈfɐ.ma/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈfɐ.mɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈfɐ.mɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈfa.mɐ/
* Rhymes: -ɐmɐ
* Hyphenation: fa‧ma

### Noun

fama f (plural famas)
* fame
    Ele entrou para o hall da fama.He entered the hall of fame.
* reputation
    Synonym: reputação
    Esse homem tem má fama.That man has a bad reputation.

#### Related terms

* famoso

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish fama, probably a semi-learned borrowing from Latin fāma (partly due to phonetic reasons: initial f did not become h, and because it preserved the Latin sense perfectly; additionally its derivatives are also learned), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bheh₂-mā-, from *bheh₂- (“to speak”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfama/ [ˈfa.ma]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ama
* Syllabification: fa‧ma

### Noun

fama f (plural famas)
* fame
* reputation
    Synonym: reputación

#### Derived terms

* buena fama
* mala fama
* salón de la fama

#### Related terms

* famoso

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “fama”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Further reading

* “fama”, 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

## Welsh
### Alternative forms

* fyma, mama

### Adverb

fama
* (colloquial) Informal form of y fan yma (“here”).

#### Derived terms

* draw fama (“over here”)

#### Related terms

* fanna (“there”)