fame

• n. 名声、評判; 噂、伝説
• vt.有名にする、有名にする

PIE*bhaの「言う」「語る」が語源で、語源的にはphone、fableと同じ。

fame

fame: [13] Etymologically, fame is ‘being talked about’. The word comes via Old French fame from Latin fāma ‘talk, reputation’. This in turn goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *bha- ‘speak’, which also produced English confess, fable, fate, ineffable, etc. The derivatives famous and infamous are both 14thcentury acquisitions.
=> confess, fable, fairy, fate, ineffable, profess

fame (n.)

early 13c., "character attributed to someone;" late 13c., "celebrity, renown," from Old French fame "fame, reputation, renown, rumor" (12c.), from Latin fama "talk, rumor, report; reputation, public opinion; renown, good reputation," but also "ill-fame, scandal, reproach," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say" (cognates: Sanskrit bhanati "speaks;" Latin fari "to say," fabula "narrative, account, tale, story;" Armenian ban, bay "word, term;" Old Church Slavonic bajati "to talk, tell;" Old English boian "to boast," ben "prayer, request;" Greek pheme "speech, voice, utterance, a speaking, talk," phone "voice, sound," phanai "to speak;" Old Irish bann "law").

The goddess Fama was the personification of rumor in Roman mythology. The Latin derivative fabulare was the colloquial word for "speak, talk" since the time of Plautus, whence Spanish hablar.

I've always been afraid I was going to tap the world on the shoulder for 20 years, and when it finally turned around I was going to forget what I had to say. [Tom Waits, "Playboy" magazine interview, March, 1988]

1. Vivienne Westwood has scaled the heights of fashion 's hall of fame .

ビビアン?ウェストウッドはファッション界のトップになっている。

2.Such roles are small beer compared with the fame she once enjoyed.

彼女がかつて享受していた名声に比べて、このような役は本当に大したものではない。

3.At the height of his fame ，his every word was valued.

彼が名声を博した時、彼の言葉はすべて重視された。

4.Some people want fame or riches-I just wanted a baby.

名望を望んでいる人もいれば、富を望んでいる人もいます。私は子供だけがほしいです。

5.Affleck catapulted to fame after picking up an Oscar.

アカデミー賞を受賞した後、アフレックは一躍有名になった。