repute

English

Etymology

From Old French reputer, from Latin reputo (“I count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider”), from re- (“again”) + puto (“I think”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpjuːt/

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• Rhymes: -uːt

Noun

repute (usually uncountable, plural reputes)

1. Reputation, especially a good reputation.
   • 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate , New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, , →OCLC:

     At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

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Translations

Verb

repute (third-person singular simple present reputes, present participle reputing, simple past and past participle reputed)

1. (transitive) To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
2. (transitive) To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something
   • 1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Job 18:3:

     Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

   • 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.

   • 1722, William Wollaston, The Religion of Nature Delineated:

     If the comparison could be made, I verily believe these would be found to be almost infinituple of the other; which ought therefore to be reputed as nothing.

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Further reading

• “repute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “repute”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “repute”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Portuguese

Verb

repute

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈpute/
• Rhymes: -ute
• Syllabification: re‧pu‧te

Verb

repute

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