Feminine

fama

Meaning

(feminine) reputation
(feminine) fame

celebrity

see mala fama

carniceria

butcher’shop

Frequency

Hyphenated as

fa‧ma

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfama/

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”).

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Sentences

An user

El lugar no
🙅

tardo en hacerse su propia fama .

The place did not take long to make its own fame.