_rumor, fama, sermo est_ or _manat_—report says; people say.
_rumor, fama viget_—a rumour is prevalent.
_fama serpit (per urbem)_—a report is spreading imperceptibly.
_rumor increbrescit_—a report, an impression is gaining ground.
_rumorem spargere_—to spread a rumour.
_famam dissipare_—to spread a rumour.
_dubii rumores afferuntur ad nos_—vague rumours reach us.
_auditione et fama accepisse aliquid_—to know from hearsay.
_fando aliquid audivisse_—to know from hearsay.
_ex eo audivi, cum diceret_—I heard him say...
_vulgo dicitur, pervulgatum est_—every one says.
_in ore omnium_ or _omnibus_ (_hominum_ or _hominibus_, but only
_mihi, tibi_, etc.) _esse_—to be in every one's mouth.
_per omnium ora ferri_—to be in every one's mouth.
_in ore habere aliquid_ (Fam. 6. 18. 5)—to harp on a thing, be always
talking of it.
_efferre_ or _edere aliquid in vulgus_—to divulge, make public.
_foras efferri, palam fieri, percrebrescere, divulgari, in medium
proferri, exire, emanare_—to become known, become a topic of common
conversation (used of things).
_in sermonem hominum venire_—to be a subject for gossip.
_in ora vulgi abire_—to be a subject for gossip.
_fabulam fieri_—to be the talk of the town, a scandal.
_nuntio allato_ or _accepto_—on receiving the news.
_Romam nuntiatum est, allatum est_—news reached Rome.
_certiorem facere aliquem_ (_alicuius rei_ or _de aliqua re_)—to
inform a person.
_mentionem facere alicuius rei_ or _de aliqua re_[1]—to mention a thing.
_mentionem inicere de aliqua re_ or Acc. c. Inf.—to mention a thing
incidentally, casually.
_in mentionem alicuius rei incidere_—to mention a thing incidentally,
casually.
_mentio alicuius rei incidit_—to mention a thing incidentally, casually.
[1] Not _commemorare_, the fundamental meaning of which is "to make a
person mindful of...," and implies an emphatic reference to a definite
point.