repute

See also: réputé, reputé, and répute

English

Etymology

From Old French reputer, from Latin reputo (“I count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider”), from re- (“again”) + puto (“I think”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpjuːt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːt

Noun

repute (usually uncountable, plural reputes)

1. Reputation, especially a good reputation.
   • 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

     At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

Derived terms

• disrepute
• habit and repute
• ill repute
• reputable
• reputation
• reputeless

Translations

reputation, especially a good reputation

Bengali: শোহরৎ (bn) (śōhorot) Bulgarian: репутация (bg) f (reputacija), реноме́ (bg) n (renomé) Chinese: Mandarin: 聲望 / 声望 (zh) (shēngwàng) Czech: reputace f Dutch: reputatie de (nl) f Esperanto: reputacio French: réputation (fr) f German: Ruf (de) m Greek: φήμη (el) f (fími) Hebrew: מוֹנִיטִין (he) m pl (monitin), שֵׁם (he) m (shaym) Italian: rinomanza (it) f Japanese: 評判 (ja) Korean: 평판 (ko) (pyeongpan) Ottoman Turkish: صان (san), اعتبار (i’tibâr), شان (şan), چاو (çav) Portuguese: reputação (pt) f Russian: до́брая сла́ва f (dóbraja sláva) Spanish: reputación (es) f Swedish: renommé (sv) n

Verb

repute (third-person singular simple present reputes, present participle reputing, simple past and past participle reputed) (transitive, chiefly passive voice)

1. To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
2. To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 18:3:

     Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

   • 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

     The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.

   • 1722, William Wollaston, The Religion of Nature Delineated:

     If the comparison could be made, I verily believe these would be found to be almost infinituple of the other; which ought therefore to be reputed as nothing.

Derived terms

• misrepute
• reputability
• reputee
• reputeless

Translations

to attribute or credit something to something

Chinese: Mandarin: 對聲望 / 对声望 (duì shēngwàng) Hebrew: נֶחְשַׁב (he) (nekhshav), חָשַׁב ל (khashav le-) Portuguese: reputar (pt)

Further reading

• “repute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “repute”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “repute”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Portuguese

Verb

repute

1. inflection of reputar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈpute/ [reˈpu.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ute
• Syllabification: re‧pu‧te

Verb

repute

1. inflection of reputar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative