fame

Meaning

  1. (feminine) hunger
  2. (feminine) famine

Frequency

A1
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
[ˈfamɪ]
Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *fam(i)ne(m) or more likely *famen, from Latin famēs (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”). Cognate with Portuguese fome, French faim, Italian fame and Romanian foame.

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