fames
See also: Fames and famés
English
Noun
fames
- plural of fame
Verb
fames
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fame
Asturian
Noun
fames
- plural of fame
Galician
Noun
fames
- plural of fame
Latin
Etymology
Since Pokorny considered to derive from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”). Connected with affatim, fatīscō, fatīgō, fessus. However, de Vaan rejects this etymology, assigning none himself.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.meːs/, [ˈfämeːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.mes/, [ˈfäːmes]
Noun
famēs f (genitive famis); third declension
- hunger
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | famēs | famēs |
| Genitive | famis | famium |
| Dative | famī | famibus |
| Accusative | famem | famēs famīs |
| Ablative | famē | famibus |
| Vocative | famēs | famēs |
However, the ablative singular always has the ē of the fifth declension: famē.[2]
Derived terms
- famelicus
- famidus
Descendants
- Aromanian: foami
- Asturian: fame
- Catalan: fam
- Dalmatian: fum
- English: famine, famished
- Franco-Provençal: fam, famèna
- French: faim, famine
- Friulian: fan
- Istriot: fan
- Istro-Romanian: fome
- Italian: fame
- Lombard: famm
- Occitan: fam, hame
- Old Portuguese: fame
- Galician: fame
- Portuguese: fome
- Piedmontese: fam
- Romanian: foame
- Romansch: fom
- Sardinian: fàmene, fámine, famen
- Sicilian: fami
- Old Spanish: fambre
- Ladino: ambre
- Spanish: hambre
- Venetian: fan
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “fatīgō, -āre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 204–205
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Latin: An Introductory Course Based on Ancient Authors, 3rd ed. (Barnes & Noble, 1963), p. 267; cf. Phaedrus, Fābulae, 4.3.
- “fames”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fames”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fames in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be tormented by hunger, to be starving: fame laborare, premi
- to endure the pangs of hunger: famem tolerare, sustentare
- to die of starvation: fame confici, perire, interire
- to be starved to death (as punishment): fame necari
- to allay one's hunger, thirst: famem, sitim explere
- to allay one's hunger, thirst: famem sitimque depellere cibo et potione
- to starve a town into surrender: oppidum fame domare
- to be tormented by hunger, to be starving: fame laborare, premi
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 239
Old French
Noun
fames f pl
- oblique/nominative plural of fame
Spanish
Noun
fames f pl
- plural of fame