different between fashion vs fame

English

Alternative forms

• fascion (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English facioun, from Anglo-Norman fechoun (compare Jersey Norman faichon), variant of Old French faceon, fazon, façon (“fashion, form, make, outward appearance”), from Latin facti? (“a making”), from faci? (“do, make”); see fact. Doublet of faction.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæ??n/
• Rhymes: -æ??n

Noun

fashion (countable and uncountable, plural fashions)

1. (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
2. (uncountable) Popular trends.

   • the innocent diversions in fashion

   • 1879, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology Part IV

     As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.

3. (countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V

     When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
4. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.

   • The fashion of his countenance was altered.
5. (dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Bislama: fasin
• ? Bengali: ?????? (ppha?ôn)
• ? Burmese: ??????? (hpakhrang)
• ? Hindi: ????? (fai?an)
• ? Irish: faisean
• ? Japanese: ?????? (fasshon)
• ? Korean: ?? (paesyeon)
• ? Malay: fesyen
  • Indonesian: fesyen
• ? Portuguese: fashion
• ? Scottish Gaelic: fasan (perhaps)
• ? Sotho: feshene
• ? Spanish: fashion
• ? Thai: ?????? (f??-chân)
• ? Urdu: ????? (fai?an)
• ? Welsh: ffasiwn

Translations

Verb

fashion (third-person singular simple present fashions, present participle fashioning, simple past and past participle fashioned)

1. To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX

     I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.

   • 2005, Plato, Sophist, translation by Lesley Brown, 235b:

     […] a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.

2. (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.

   • Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.

3. (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.

   • Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people.

4. (obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.

Derived terms

• disfashion
• misfashion
• newfashion
• refashion
• fashioning needle
• unfashioned

Translations

Further reading

• fashion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fashion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English fashion. Doublet of facção and feição.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?.?õ/

Adjective

fashion (invariable, comparable)

1. (slang) fashionable, trendy

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fashion. Doublet of facción.

Adjective

fashion (invariable)

1. fashionable, trendy

Derived terms

Noun

fashion m (plural fashions or fashion)

1. fashion

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.