famaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈfaː.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈfaː.ma]

名詞

fāma f (genitive fāmae); first declension

1. fame

   Synonyms: indicium, nūntius, notitia

2. rumour, talk, opinion, report
   • c. 195 BCE, Plautus, Trinummus 1.2.149:

     hascine propter rēs maledicās fāmās ferunt.

     Is it on account of these things that they spread slanderous reports?

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.532–533:

     “Oenōtrī coluēre virī; nunc fāma minōrēs
     Ītaliam dīxisse ducīs dē nōmine gentem.”

     “Oenotrian men tilled [the land]; now rumor [has it that their] descendants call the nation ‘Italy’ after the name of its leader, [Italus].”

3. reputation

   Dīmīcantī dē fāmā dēesse.

   To abandon one whose reputation is attacked.

   • 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, The Heroines 17.17, (translation Benham's Book of Quotations 1948):

     Fāma tamen clāra est; et adhūc sine crīmine vīxī.

     My good name is nevertheless unstained; and so far I have lived without blame.

   • 61 CE – c. 112 CE, Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 3.20.9:

     Multī fāmam, conscientiam paucī verentur.

     Many fear their reputation, few their conscience.

4. Fama, personified as a fast-moving, malicious goddess, the daughter of Terra. From the Greek φήμη, Pheme. Typically translated from the Latin as “Rumor.”
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.173–174:

     Extemplō Libyae magnās it Fāma per urbēs —
     Fāma, malum quā nōn aliud vēlōcius ūllum.

     Straightaway Rumor runs through the great cities of Libya – Rumor, than whom [there is] not any other evil more swift.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

• īnfāmis

派生した語

名詞

fāmā

1. ablative singular of fāma

参照

• “fama”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fama in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be able to endure hunger and thirst: famis et sitis patientem esse
    
  • report says; people say: rumor, fama, sermo est or manat
    
  • a rumour is prevalent: rumor, fama viget
    
  • a report is spreading imperceptibly: fama serpit (per urbem)
    
  • to spread a rumour: famam dissipare
    
  • to know from hearsay: auditione et fama accepisse aliquid
    
  • to gain distinction: gloriam, famam sibi comparare
    
  • to detract from a person's reputation, wilfully underestimate a person: de gloria, fama alicuius detrahere
    
  • to detract from a person's reputation, wilfully underestimate a person: alicuius famam, laudem imminuere
    
  • to render obscure, eclipse a person: obscurare alicuius gloriam, laudem, famam (not obscurare aliquem)
    
  • to have regard for one's good name: famae servire, consulere
    
  • to live up to one's reputation: famam ante collectam tueri, conservare
    
  • to gain the reputation of cruelty: famam crudelitatis subire (Catil. 4. 6. 12)
    
  • to leave a great reputation behind one: magnam sui famam relinquere