Noun: fame
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | fame |
| Plural f | fames |
Sample Sentences
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onde eu moytas chagas et deostos et pelejas et escarnos et caenturas et cãsaço et fame et frio et moytos outros traballos padeçin (here, where I have suffered many sores and insults and fights and derision and fever and tiredness and hunger and cold and so many other pains) [1390, Pensado Tomé, edited by José Luís, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C, page 136:]
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eno tempo da abadesa Donna Moor Peres, que foy ante do anno da grande fame [1419, Pérez Rodríguez, F. (ed.), "San Jorge de Codeseda: un monasterio femenino bajomedieval", in Studia Monastica (33), page 84]
Nouns inflected like fame
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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, Spanish hambre, Italian fame and Romanian foame. See: Latin Nouns '
famēs', Portuguese Nouns '
fome', French Nouns '
faim', Spanish Nouns '
hambre', Italian Nouns '
fame', Romanian Nouns '
foame'.
Verbs referencing "fame"
Italian Nouns
fame, Portuguese Nouns
fome, Spanish Nouns
hambre, French Nouns
faim, Romanian Nouns
foame.
Translations