Reputable means having a good name and worth trusting. A reputable firm, reputable sources, use a reputable dealer.
It is the word of consumer advice, where using a reputable trader is the standing recommendation. It says nothing about quality directly, only that others have found the dealings honest.
1adjectivereputableHaving a good name and worth trusting.
“Always buy a used car from a reputable dealer.”
reputable is a quality.
Latin
reputō — to count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider
Old French
reputer
English
repute
English, today
reputable
Built from
From repute + -able. repute comes from Old French reputer, from Latin reputō (“to count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider”), from re- (“again”) + putō (“to think”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA