Etymology

famed

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Today it means: Having fame; famous or noted. Full definition →

English fame ← Middle English fame ← Old French fame
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰéh₂meh₂
  3. Proto-Italic*fāmā
  4. Latinfāma
  5. Old Frenchfame
  6. Middle Englishfame
  7. Englishfame
  8. English todayfamed

From fame + -ed.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.