different between fame vs shame

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?m/
• Rhymes: -e?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English schame, from Old English s?amu, from Proto-Germanic *skam?.

Noun

shame (usually uncountable, plural shames)

1. Uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor, or something being exposed that should have been kept private.
2. Something to regret.
   • 1977, Evelyn "Champagne" King, Shame

     And what you do to me is a shame.
3. Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision.

   • […] because ye haue borne the shame of the heathen,

   • 1813, Lord Byron, The Giaour

     And every woe a tear can claim / Except an erring sister's shame.

4. The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach and ignominy.

   • guides who are the shame of religion

5. That which is shameful and private, especially private parts.
   • 1611, KJV, Jubilees 3:22:

     And he took fig leaves and sewed them together and made an apron for himself. And he covered his shame.

   • 1991, Martha Graham, Blood Memory, Washington Square Press

     She turns to lift her robe, and lays it across her as though she were revealing her shame, as though she were naked.

Synonyms

• (uncomfortable or painful feeling): dishonor
• (something regrettable): dishonor, humiliation, mortification, pity
• See also: Thesaurus:shame

Antonyms

• (uncomfortable or painful feeling): honor

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

shame

1. A cry of admonition for the subject of a speech, either to denounce the speaker or to agree with the speaker's denunciation of some person or matter; often used reduplicated, especially in political debates.
   • 1982, "Telecommunications Bill", Hansard

     Mr John Golding: One would not realise that it came from the same Government, because in that letter the Under-Secretary states: "The future of BT's pension scheme is a commercial matter between BT, its workforce, and the trustees of the pensions scheme, and the Government cannot give any guarantees about future pension arrangements."

     Mr. Charles R. Morris: Shame.

   • 1831, The Bristol Job Nott; or, Labouring Man's Friend

     [...] the Duke of Dorset charged in the list with "not known, but supposed forty thousand per year" (charitable supposition) had when formerly in office only about 3 or £4,000, and has not now, nor when the black list was printed, any office whatever — (Much tumult, and cries of "shame" and "doust the liars")

2. (South Africa) Expressing sympathy.

   Shame, you poor thing, you must be cold!

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English schamen, from Old English s?amian, from Proto-West Germanic *skam?n, from Proto-Germanic *skam?n?.

Verb

shame (third-person singular simple present shames, present participle shaming, simple past and past participle shamed)

1. (transitive) To cause to feel shame.

   • Were there but one righteous in the world, he would […] shame the world, and not the world him.

2. To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
3. (transitive) To drive or compel by shame.

4. (obsolete, intransitive) To feel shame, be ashamed.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To mock at; to deride.

   • Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge.

Synonyms

• (to cause to feel shame): demean, humiliate, insult, mortify

Antonyms

• (to cause to feel shame): honor, dignify

Derived terms

• ashamed
• beshame
• (sense: to cause to feel shame) creep-shame
• name and shame

Translations

References

• shame in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Hames, Shema, ahems, haems, hames, heams