fames

fames

1. plural of fame

fames

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fame

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”). Connected with affatim, fatīscō, fatīgō, fessus. However, De Vaan rejects this etymology, assigning none himself.[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.meːs/

famēs f (genitive famis); third declension

1. hunger

Third declension.

However, the ablative singular always has the ē of the fifth declension: famē.[2]

• famelicus
• famidus

• fames in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fames in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fames in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be tormented by hunger, to be starving: fame laborare, premi
    
  • to endure the pangs of hunger: famem tolerare, sustentare
    
  • to die of starvation: fame confici, perire, interire
    
  • to be starved to death (as punishment): fame necari
    
  • to allay one's hunger, thirst: famem, sitim explere
    
  • to allay one's hunger, thirst: famem sitimque depellere cibo et potione
    
  • to starve a town into surrender: oppidum fame domare
    
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 239

fames f pl

1. inflection of fame:
   1. oblique plural
   2. nominative plural