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.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfāmis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

infame (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

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

  • Hyphenation: in‧fa‧me

Adjective

infame m or f (plural infames)

  1. infamous

Derived terms

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfāmis.

Adjective

infame (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

Further reading
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