infâme
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin īnfāmis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.fam/ ~ /ɛ̃.fɑm/
Adjective
infâme (plural infâmes)
Related terms
Descendants
Noun
infâme m or f (plural infâmes)
- villain
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Puis, elle ajoutait en le repoussant d'un geste langoureux: — Vous êtes tous des infâmes!
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “infâme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012