infame

infame

See also: infâme and infamé

English

Etymology

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

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 book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     sapience , hitherto obscured , infamed

   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Empire”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, OCLC 863521290:

     Livia is infamed for the poisoning of her husband.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for infame in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

• Famine, famine, imafen

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfāmis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /imˈfa.mə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /imˈfa.me/

Adjective

infame (masculine and feminine plural infames)

1. infamous

Derived terms

• infamement

Related terms

• infàmia
• fama

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: infament, infames

Verb

infame

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

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Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfāmis.

Adjective

infame m or f (plural infames)

1. infamous

Related terms

• infamia

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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

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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

Related terms

• infamia
• fama

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Latin

Adjective

īnfāme

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of īnfāmis

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfāmis.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩˈfɐ̃.mi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩˈfɐ̃.mi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩˈfɐ.me/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩˈfɐ.m(ɨ)/

• Hyphenation: in‧fa‧me

Adjective

infame m or f (plural infames)

1. infamous

Derived terms

• infamemente

Related terms

• infâmia

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfāmis.

Adjective

infame (plural infames)

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

Derived terms

• infamemente

Related terms

• infamia
• fama

Verb

infame

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

Further reading

• “infame”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014