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

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.

reputation, especially a good reputation

repute (third-person singular simple present reputes, present participle reputing, simple past and past participle reputed) (transitive, chiefly passive voice)

  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

repute

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

repute

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