different between opprobrium vs infamy

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

English

Etymology

From late Middle English infamie, from Old French infamie, from Latin ?nf?mia (“infamy”), from ?nf?mis (“infamous”), from in- (“not”) + f?ma (“fame, renown”). Displaced native Old English unhl?sa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nf?mi/
• Hyphenation: in?fa?my

Noun

infamy (countable and uncountable, plural infamies)

1. The state of being infamous.
2. A reputation as being evil.
   • December 8, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Infamy Speech, [1]

     Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

3. A reprehensible occurrence or situation.
4. (law) A stigma attaching to a person's character that disqualifies them from being a witness.

Related terms

• fame
• infamous

Translations