See also: réputé, reputé, and répute

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Etymology

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From Old French reputer, from Latin reputo (I count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider), from re- (again) + puto (I think).

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  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpjuːt/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːt

Noun

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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.

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Verb

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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

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Verb

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repute

  1. inflection of reputar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /reˈpute/ [reˈpu.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ute
  • Syllabification: re‧pu‧te

Verb

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repute

  1. inflection of reputar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative