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

 

Translations

reputation, especially a good reputation

• Bengali: শোহরৎ (bn) (śōhorot)
• Bulgarian: репутация (bg) f (reputacija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聲望／声望 (zh) (shēngwàng)

• Czech: reputace f
• Dutch: reputatie de (nl) f
• 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 f
• Japanese: 評判 (ja)
• Korean: 평판 (ko) (pyeongpan)
• Ottoman Turkish: صان (san)
• 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)

1. (transitive) To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
2. (transitive) 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.

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.
• “repute”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →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