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repute

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈpjuːt/

The English word “repute” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Reputation, especially a good reputation.

verb

  1. To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
  2. To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something

Etymology

From Old French reputer, from Latin reputō (“to count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider”), from re- (“again”) + putō (“to think”).

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