famulo

Two pieces, both of which you already own.Famo at rank 625 is fame, reputation, what is said about you. -Ul- makes a person characterised by the root: juna and junulo, riĉa and riĉulo, stulta and stultulo. So famulo is a fame-person, and English needs the borrowed French word celebrity to say the same thing.

The suffix does the work English pays for in loanwords. This is the pattern worth noticing rather than the individual word. Wherever English has to import a noun for a kind of person, Esperanto builds one: sciulo an expert, riĉulo a rich man, sanktulo a saint, krimulo a criminal, belulino a beauty. Once -ul- is automatic, a whole class of vocabulary stops needing to be memorised, and famulo is a good one to fix it with because the meaning is so exactly what the pieces say.

Fame is neutral in Esperanto, and so is this word. The famo page makes the point that one root covers the whole range from glory down to gossip, sorted by context. Famulo inherits that: it is not automatically flattering and not automatically sneering. If you want the admiring one, gloro and glorulo are there; if you want the other, fifamulo is a notorious person and fi- is the prefix of moral disgust.

Near neighbours. Fama is famous, famiĝi is to become famous, famkonata is well known, and stelulo is the showbusiness star specifically, by the same route English took to star. Note that a famulo need not be an aktoro: a footballer, a scientist and a monarch are all famuloj.