different between disrepute vs opprobrium

English

Etymology

dis- +? repute

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s???pju?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Noun

disrepute (uncountable)

1. Loss or want of reputation; ill character.

   Synonyms: disesteem, discredit

   • 1815, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering

     The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.

Usage notes

Often used in the construction be in disrepute, bring someone (or something) into disrepute or fall into disrepute.

Translations

Verb

disrepute (third-person singular simple present disreputes, present participle disreputing, simple past and past participle disreputed)

1. To bring into disrepute; to hold in dishonor.

Translations

Anagrams

• redispute, superdiet, supertide

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin opprobrium (“reproach, disgrace”), first attested [1656], from opprobr? (“reproach, taunt”), from ob (“against”) + probrum (“disgrace, dishonor”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??p?o?b?i.?m/

Noun

opprobrium (countable and uncountable, plural opprobriums or opprobria)

1. Disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct; ignominy.

   Synonym: obloquy

2. Scornful reproach or contempt.

   Synonyms: blame, castigation, censure, defamation, derision, invective, libel; see also Thesaurus:contempt

3. A cause of shame or disgrace.

   Synonym: curse

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:opprobrium.

Related terms

• opprobrious

Translations

Latin

Alternative forms

• obprobrium

Etymology

From opprobr? +? -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /op?pro.bri.um/, [?p?p??b?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /op?pro.bri.um/, [?p?p???b?ium]

Noun

opprobrium n (genitive opprobri? or opprobr?); second declension

1. reproach, taunt
2. scandal, disgrace, dishonour, shame

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• opprobri?sus

Descendants

• Catalan: oprobi
• ? English: opprobrium
• French: opprobre
• Portuguese: opróbrio
• Spanish: oprobio, oprobrio

References

• opprobrium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• opprobrium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• opprobrium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette