different between fame vs admiration

English

Etymology

From Middle English fame, from Old French fame (“celebrity, renown”), itself borrowed from Latin f?ma (“talk, rumor, report, reputation”), from Proto-Indo-European *bheh?meh?-, from *b?eh?- (“to speak, say, tell”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ???? (ph?m?, “talk”). Related also to Latin for (“speak, say”, verb), Old English b?ian (“to boast”), Old English b?n (“prayer, request”), Old English bannan (“to summon, command, proclaim”). More at ban.

Displaced native Old English hl?sa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?m/
• Rhymes: -e?m

Noun

fame (usually uncountable, plural fames)

1. (now rare) What is said or reported; gossip, rumour.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 651-4:

     There went a fame in Heav'n that he ere long / Intended to create, and therein plant / A generation, whom his choice regard / Should favour […].

   • 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin 2013, page 23:

     If the accused could produce a specified number of honest neighbours to swear publicly that the suspicion was unfounded, and if no one else came forward to contradict them convincingly, the charge was dropped: otherwise the common fame was held to be true.

2. One's reputation.
3. The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of.

   Antonyms: obscurity, unknownness

Derived terms

• hall of fame
• walk of fame

Translations

Verb

fame (third-person singular simple present fames, present participle faming, simple past and past participle famed)

1. (transitive) to make (someone or something) famous

Related terms

• famed
• famous

See also

• renown

Anagrams

• FEMA, FMEA, mafe

Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *faminem or *famen, from Latin fam?s (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?H- (“to disappear”).

Noun

fame f (plural fames)

1. hunger

Related terms

• afamiar

Esperanto

Adverb

fame

1. famously

Related terms

• fama

Galician

Alternative forms

• fome

Etymology

From Old Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *fam(i)ne(m) or more likely *famen, from Latin fam?s (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?H- (“to disappear”). Cognate with Portuguese fome, French faim, Italian fame and Romanian foame.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fame?/

Noun

fame f (plural fames)

1. hunger
   • 1390, Pensado Tomé, José Luís (ed). Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 136:

     onde eu moytas chagas et deostos et pelejas et escarnos et caenturas et cãsaço et fame et frio et moytos outros traballos padeçin

     here, where I have suffered many sores and insults and fights and derision and fever and tiredness and hunger and cold and so many other labours

   Synonyms: apetito, larica

2. famine
   • 1419, Pérez Rodríguez, F. (ed.), "San Jorge de Codeseda: un monasterio femenino bajomedieval", in Studia Monastica (33), page 84:

     eno tempo da abadesa Donna Moor Peres, que foy ante do anno da grande fame

     in times of the abbess Lady Mor Pérez, which was the year before the great famine

Derived terms

References

• “fame” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “fame” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “fame” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “fame” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Interlingua

Noun

fame

1. hunger

Italian

Etymology

From Latin fam?s (“hunger”)/Latin famem (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?H- (“to disappear”). Compare Galician fame, French faim, Portuguese fome and Romanian foame.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa.me/
• Hyphenation: fà?me

Noun

fame f (plural fami)

1. hunger
   • 2006, Società Biblica di Ginevra, Nuova Riveduta 2006, Psalm 33:19:

     per liberarli dalla morte e conservarli in vita in tempo di fame.

     to deliver them from death and to keep them alive in times of hunger.

Derived terms

Related terms

• famelico (“ravenous”)

Noun

fame f pl

1. plural of fama

Latin

Noun

fam?

1. ablative singular of fam?s

References

• fame in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fame in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]

Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

From French femme (“woman”).

Noun

fame

1. woman

References

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Old French

Alternative forms

• fam, feme

Etymology

From Latin femina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fãm?]

Noun

fame f (oblique plural fames, nominative singular fame, nominative plural fames)

1. wife, female partner
2. woman

Usage notes

• Unlike in modern French, fame usually refers to a wife, while dame usually refers to a woman

Descendants

• Bourbonnais-Berrichon: fonne
• Bourguignon: fanne, fonne
• Champenois: fanme, fonme, fomme
• Gallo: fame, fom
• Lorrain: fomme
• Middle French: femme
  • French: femme
    • Antillean Creole: fanm
    • Guianese Creole: fanm
    • Haitian Creole: fanm
    • Karipúna Creole French: fam
    • Louisiana Creole French: fam, fenm
    • Seychellois Creole: fanm
• Norman: femme, fâme, faume, faumme, foume, fenme
• Picard: fanme, féme, feume
• Walloon: feme
• ? Middle English: femme, feme
  • English: femme, feme

Old Portuguese

Alternative forms

• fome

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *fam(i)ne(m), or more likely *famen, from Latin fam?s (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?H- (“to disappear”). Cognate with Old Spanish fambre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa.me/

Noun

fame f

1. hunger

   • nen fame nen ?ede. nen frio

     nor hunger nor thirst nor cold

Descendants

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin fam?s (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?H- (“to disappear”). Cognate with Portuguese fome, French faim, Italian fame and Romanian foame.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fame/, [?fa.me]

Noun

fame f (plural fames)

1. hunger

   Synonym: hambre

2. famine

References

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French admiration, or directly from Latin adm?r?ti?, from prefix ad- (“to, towards”) + m?r? (“I look at”) + -?ti?. Compare the verb admire, and US dialectal terms miration and mirate.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æd.m??e??.?n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

admiration (countable and uncountable, plural admirations)

1. A positive emotion including wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 2, Book 7, Chapter 1, pp. 4-5,^[1]

     For in this Instance, Life most exactly resembles the Stage, since it is often the same Person who represents the Villain and the Heroe; and he who engages your Admiration To-day, will probably attract your Contempt To-Morrow.

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Volume 1, Chapter 6,^[2]

     A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

   • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, New York: Harcout Brace Jovanovich, 1974, Chapter 3, p. 40,^[3]

     Dr. Veraswami had a passionate admiration for the English, which a thousand snubs from Englishmen had not shaken.

   • 1939, John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath, Penguin, 1951, Chapter 19, p. 257,^[4]

     […] in the towns, the storekeepers hated them because they had no money to spend. There is no shorter path to a storekeeper’s contempt, and all his admirations are exactly opposite. The town men, little bankers, hated Okies because there was nothing to gain from them.

2. (obsolete) Wondering or questioning (without any particular positive or negative attitude to the subject).
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 4,^[5]

     Lear. Your name, fair gentlewoman?

     Goneril. This admiration, sir, is much o’ th’ savour

     Of other your new pranks.

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Revelation 17:6,^[6]

     And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 3, lines 270-272,^[7]

     […] Admiration seized

     All Heaven, what this might mean, and whither tend,

     Wondering;

3. (obsolete) Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 1,^[8]

     Now, good Lafeu,

     Bring in the admiration; that we with thee

     May spend our wonder too, or take off thine

     By wondering how thou took’st it.

Synonyms

• (positive emotion including wonder and approbation): approval, appreciation, adoration, reverence, wonder, worship

Derived terms

• see admire

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin admiratio, admirationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad.mi.?a.sj??/

Noun

admiration f (plural admirations)

1. admiration

   Plein d’admiration pour son adversaire, chacun lève sa propre visière : "Elsseneur ! ...", "Réginald ! ..." (Les Chants de Maldoror - Chant V) - Full of admiration for his enemy, ...

Further reading

• “admiration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Scots

Noun

admiration (plural admirations)

1. admiration

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online