infame

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See also: infâme and infamé

English

Etymology

Latin īnfāmāre, from īnfāmis (“infamous”): compare French infamer, Italian infamare. See infamous.

Pronunciation

Verb

infame (third-person singular simple present infames, present participle infaming, simple past and past participle infamed)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To defame; to make infamous.
    • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:
      sapience, hitherto obscured, infamed
    • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Empire”, in The Essayes , 3rd edition, London: Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
      Livia is infamed for the poisoning of her husband.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfāmis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

infame m or f (masculine and feminine plural infames)

  1. infamous

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

Verb

infame

  1. inflection of infamer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin īnfāmis.

Adjective

infame m or f (plural infames)

  1. infamous

German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

infame

  1. inflection of infam:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfāmis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /inˈfa.me/
  • Rhymes: -ame
  • Hyphenation: in‧fà‧me

Adjective

infame (plural infami)

  1. infamous
  2. vile
    Synonyms: cattivo, meschino, vile
  3. (colloquial, figurative) awful, dreadful
    Synonym: pessimo
    un tempo infame ― awful weather

Noun

infame m (plural infami, feminine infame)

  1. villain, scoundrel
  2. snitch, rat, informant or informer, traitor, turncoat

Latin

Adjective

īnfāme

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of īnfāmis

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfāmis.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: in‧fa‧me

Adjective

infame m or f (plural infames)

  1. infamous

Derived terms

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfāmis.

Adjective

infame m or f (masculine and feminine plural infames)

  1. awful, dreadful
  2. infamous, vile, wicked

Derived terms

Verb

infame

  1. inflection of infamar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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