fome

See also: fòme and ƒome

Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɔme̝/

Noun

fome f (plural fomes)

  1. alternative form of fame

References

Middle English

Noun

fome

  1. alternative form of fom

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese fame, from Latin famēs (“hunger”) (possibly through a Vulgar Latin alternative accusative form Latin *fam(i)ne(m), or more likely a variant nominative form *famen), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”). Compare Galician fame, Spanish hambre (Old Spanish fambre), Catalan fam, French faim, Italian fame and Romanian foame (which likewise underwent an unusual phonetic development, possibly influenced by the unrelated Latin fomes (“tinder”)).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfõ.mi/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfo.me/

  • Hyphenation: fo‧me

Noun

fome f (plural fomes)

  1. (uncountable) hunger (need or compelling desire for food)
    Tenho fome porque não como há três dias.
    I’m hungry because I haven’t eaten in three days.
    (literally, “I have hunger”)
  2. (figurative) hunger (any strong desire)
    Synonyms: avidez, sede
    Fome de poder.
    Hunger for power.
  3. famine (extreme shortage of food in a region)
    Ocorreram várias fomes na Etiópia.
    Many famines took place in Ethiopia.

Derived terms

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfome/ [ˈfo.me]
  • Rhymes: -ome
  • Syllabification: fo‧me

Adjective

fome m or f (masculine and feminine plural fomes)

  1. (Chile, colloquial) boring, unfunny, lame, uncool, dull, stale
    Synonyms: aburrido, soso

Further reading

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