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fame

fame is a Latin form of fames, meaning “hunger; famine”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 196 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.30.3: qui, si per te liceat, perendino die cum proximis hibernis coniuncti communem cum reliquis belli casum sustineant, non reiecti et relegati longe ab ceteris aut ferro aut fame intereant."

Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.784: pestifera lacerare Fame. Quae quatenus ipsi

Plautus, Stichus 1.3.216: consenui; paene sum famé emortuos.

All forms of fames (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.