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noun, feminine

fama

/ˈfama/

noun, feminine/ˈfama/plural: famas

fame; reputation

Synonyms: reputación

Inherited from Old Spanish fama, probably a semi-learned borrowing from Latin fāma (partly due to phonetic reasons: initial f did not become h, and because it preserved the Latin sense perfectly; additionally its derivatives are also learned), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bheh₂-mā-, from *bheh₂- (“to speak”).

fama — Spanish Dictionary | Passage