repute
See also: réputé, reputé, and répute
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/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːt
Noun
repute (usually uncountable, plural reputes)
- Reputation, especially a good reputation.
- 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:
- 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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Related terms
- disrepute
- ill repute
- reputable
- reputation
Translations
reputation, especially a good reputation
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Verb
repute (third-person singular simple present reputes, present participle reputing, simple past and past participle reputed)
- (transitive) To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
- (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 964384981, Job 18:3:
- Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
- 1613, 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[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:
- 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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Translations
to attribute or credit something to something
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Further reading
- repute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- repute in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- repute at OneLook Dictionary Search
Portuguese
Verb
repute
- inflection of reputar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reˈpute/ [reˈpu.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ute
- Syllabification: re‧pu‧te
Verb
repute
- inflection of reputar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative