different between repute vs achievement

English

Etymology

From Old French reputer, from Latin reputo (“I count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider”), from re- (“again”) + puto (“I think”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???pju?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Noun

repute (usually uncountable, plural reputes)

1. Reputation, especially a good reputation.

   • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

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Verb

repute (third-person singular simple present reputes, present participle reputing, simple past and past participle reputed)

1. (transitive) To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
2. (transitive) To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something

   • Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

   • 1722, William Wollaston, The Religion of Nature Delineated

     If the comparison could be made, I verily believe these would be found to be almost infinituple of the other; which ought therefore to be reputed as nothing.

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Further reading

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

Portuguese

Verb

repute

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of reputar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of reputar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of reputar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of reputar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?pute/, [re?pu.t?e]

Verb

repute

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of reputar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of reputar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of reputar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of reputar.

English

Etymology

From Middle French achevement, from Old French achevement, from the verb achever, achiever (“to finish”). Compare Modern French achèvement; the heraldic sense may be influenced by hatchment. Equivalent to achieve +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t?i?vm?nt/

Noun

achievement (countable and uncountable, plural achievements)

1. The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment
2. A great or heroic deed or feat; something accomplished by valor or boldness
3. (heraldry) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.
4. (video games) An award for completing a particular task or meeting an objective in a video game.

   Synonym: trophy

5. (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change in an instant.

Synonyms

• accomplishment

Derived terms

• achievement unlocked

Translations

Further reading

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