different between capability vs repute

English

Etymology

Formed in Modern English as capable +? -ity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke?p??b?l?ti/
• Rhymes: -?l?ti

Noun

capability (countable and uncountable, plural capabilities)

1. the power or ability to generate an outcome
2. (computing) A digital token allowing a user or process to interact in a specified way with an object that is subject to access control. [from 1960s]

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:skill

Derived terms

• limited-capability

Related terms

• capable (adjective)

Translations

References

• capability on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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): /???pju?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Noun

repute (usually uncountable, plural reputes)

1. Reputation, especially a good reputation.

   • 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

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

   • 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.

Translations

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

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of reputar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of reputar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of reputar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of reputar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?pute/, [re?pu.t?e]

Verb

repute

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of reputar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of reputar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of reputar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of reputar.