Feminine

fama

Sentences
Meaning

  1. (feminine) fame
  2. (feminine) reputation

Frequency

B2
Hyphenated as
fa‧ma
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfama/
Etymology

In summary

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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