different between fame vs merit

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

The noun is derived from Middle English merit, merite (“quality of person’s character or conduct deserving of reward or punishment; such reward or punishment; excellence, worthiness; benefit; right to be rewarded for spiritual service; retribution at doomsday; virtue through which Jesus Christ brings about salvation; virtue possessed by a holy person; power of a pagan deity”), from Anglo-Norman merit, merite, Old French merite (“moral worth, reward; merit”) (modern French mérite), from Latin meritum (“that which one deserves, deserts; benefit, reward, merit; service; kindness; importance, value, worth; blame, demerit, fault; grounds, reason”), neuter of meritus (“deserved, earned, obtained; due, proper, right; deserving, meritorious”), perfect passive participle of mere? (“to deserve, earn, obtain, merit; to earn a living”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to allot, assign”). The English word is probably cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (méros, “component, part; portion, share; destiny, fate, lot”) and cognate with Old Occitan merit.

The verb is derived from Middle French meriter, Old French meriter (“to deserve, merit”) (modern French mériter), from merite: see further above. The word is cognate with Italian meritare (“to deserve, merit; to be worth; to earn”), Latin merit?re (“to earn regularly; to serve as a soldier”), Spanish meritar (“to deserve, merit; to earn”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: m?r??t, IPA^(key): /?m???t/, /?m???t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m???t/, /?m???t/
• Rhymes: -???t
• Hyphenation: me?rit

Noun

merit (countable and uncountable, plural merits)

1. (countable) A claim to commendation or a reward.
2. (countable) A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.

   Antonym: demerit
3. (countable, uncountable) Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.

   Synonyms: excellence, value, worth

   Antonym: demerit
4. (uncountable, Buddhism, Jainism) The sum of all the good deeds that a person does which determines the quality of the person's next state of existence and contributes to the person's growth towards enlightenment.
5. (uncountable, law) Usually in the plural form the merits: the substantive rightness or wrongness of a legal argument, a lawsuit, etc., as opposed to technical matters such as the admissibility of evidence or points of legal procedure; (by extension) the overall good or bad quality, or rightness or wrongness, of some other thing.
6. (countable, obsolete) The quality or state of deserving retribution, whether reward or punishment.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

merit (third-person singular simple present merits, present participle meriting, simple past and past participle merited)

1. (transitive) To deserve, to earn.
2. (intransitive) To be deserving or worthy.
3. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To reward.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• merit (Buddhism) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• merit (Catholicism) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• merit (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• merit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• merit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• merit at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Terim, ermit, miter, mitre, remit, timer

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin meritum.

Pronunciation

Noun

merit m (plural meric)

1. merit

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?merit]

Etymology 1

From French mérite.

Noun

merit n (plural merite)

1. merit

Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

merit

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of merita