Etymology

renown

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Today it means: Fame; celebrity; wide recognition. Full definition →

Old French renoun
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  1. Old French · derived fromrenoun
  2. English todayrenown

From Old French renoun (compare with Modern French renom), equivalent to re- + noun.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.