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==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] fama report, fame; akin to Latin fari to speak
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th Century]
==Definitions==
*1a : [[public]] estimation : reputation
:b : popular acclaim : [[opinion]]
*2: archaic : [[rumor]]
==Description==
'''Fame''' or [[glory]] is a concept that seldom serves as a [[symbol]] of something else but is itself often symbolized in distinctive conventional ways in [[literature]].
[[Words]] [[meaning]] “fame” are usually derived from [[roots]] meaning “hear” or “say,” since before [[modern]] times a person’s fame depended almost entirely on the heard or spoken [[word]]. Homer’s term for it, kleos, derives from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages Indo-European] root kleu-, which also yields [[Greek]] kluo, “I hear,” klutos, “heard-of, famous,” Kleio (whence [[Latin]] Clio), the muse of epic [[poetry]], and several other [[words]]. The [[English]] derivatives of kleu- are “loud” and “listen.” In [[Sanskrit]] the same root generates sravah, “fame” (in the Rigveda), while in Slavic it produces slava, “fame” (and slovo, “word, epic tale”). These [[words]] are closely associated with epic [[poetry]], which was the chief vehicle of [[glory]] in [[ancient]] times. [[Latin]] fama, which passes through French into English as “fame,” is related to fari, “to speak,” and fatum, “utterance, something spoken by a [[god]] or [[oracle]],” which yields English “[[fate]].” An [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] word for “fame” is blaed (as in [[Beowulf]] 1761), which can mean “[[breath]]” as well; it is related to blawan, “blow,” and blaest. [[Latin]] gloria is of uncertain [[origin]].
[[Category: General Reference]]
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] fama report, fame; akin to Latin fari to speak
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th Century]
==Definitions==
*1a : [[public]] estimation : reputation
:b : popular acclaim : [[opinion]]
*2: archaic : [[rumor]]
==Description==
'''Fame''' or [[glory]] is a concept that seldom serves as a [[symbol]] of something else but is itself often symbolized in distinctive conventional ways in [[literature]].
[[Words]] [[meaning]] “fame” are usually derived from [[roots]] meaning “hear” or “say,” since before [[modern]] times a person’s fame depended almost entirely on the heard or spoken [[word]]. Homer’s term for it, kleos, derives from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages Indo-European] root kleu-, which also yields [[Greek]] kluo, “I hear,” klutos, “heard-of, famous,” Kleio (whence [[Latin]] Clio), the muse of epic [[poetry]], and several other [[words]]. The [[English]] derivatives of kleu- are “loud” and “listen.” In [[Sanskrit]] the same root generates sravah, “fame” (in the Rigveda), while in Slavic it produces slava, “fame” (and slovo, “word, epic tale”). These [[words]] are closely associated with epic [[poetry]], which was the chief vehicle of [[glory]] in [[ancient]] times. [[Latin]] fama, which passes through French into English as “fame,” is related to fari, “to speak,” and fatum, “utterance, something spoken by a [[god]] or [[oracle]],” which yields English “[[fate]].” An [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] word for “fame” is blaed (as in [[Beowulf]] 1761), which can mean “[[breath]]” as well; it is related to blawan, “blow,” and blaest. [[Latin]] gloria is of uncertain [[origin]].
[[Category: General Reference]]
