Noun: fame
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | fame |
| Plural f | fames |
Sample Sentences
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nen fame nen ſede. nen frio (nor hunger nor thirst nor cold) [a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 50 ([[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/139small.gif] facsimile])]
Nouns inflected like fame
azỹeira,
alfarroba,
ymagen,
ygreja,
milgrãada,
berbeleta,
barriga,
estrolomia,
cavalaria,
paravra,
paravoa,
paravla,
palavra,
purgaminho,
bẽeyçõn,
bẽeiçon,
galinha,
galinna,
demanda,
saudade, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *fam(i)ne(m), or more likely *famen, from Latin famēs (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”). Cognate with Old Spanish fambre. See: Latin Nouns '
famēs', Old Spanish Nouns '
fambre'.
Verbs referencing "fame"
Portuguese Nouns
fome.
Translations