Translation
reputation, standing
Word origin
From Latin reputatio, a reckoning up, from reputare, to count over or think through, which is re- plus putare, to reckon. The same putare gives English compute, dispute and putative.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- reputatio
- English cognates
- reputation, repute, compute, putative
Examples
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His reputation in the town is very good.
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One bad word can destroy a reputation.
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She worked for many years to build her reputation.
One root, not a build. The ending looks like a suffix and is not one. There is no -aci- in Esperanto: is a single borrowed root, -, and the -o is just the noun ending. The affix that genuinely sounds close is -aĉ-, the pejorative, and it carries a hat: o would be a shabby, contemptible reputation. That is a real word you could coin, and it is not what this one is made of.
and are not the same thing. Famo is what is said about you and how widely it travels, which is why the same word covers both fame and rumour. is the judgement people have settled on: it can be good or bad, it belongs to a person, a firm or a town, and you build it over years. means people speak well of you; means they trust you.
The useful collocations. is to have a good name, is to lose it, is to damage someone's. The adjective is reputacia and is rare; Esperanto normally puts the noun to work instead.
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