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faveo
faveo
Latin
Verb
faveō (present infinitive favēre, perfect active fāvī, supine fautum); second conjugation
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: favour
References
- faveo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- faveo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “faveo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- maintain a devout silence (properly, utter no ill-omened word): favete ore, linguis = εὐφημειτε
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(ambiguous) to look favourably upon; to support: studere, favere alicui
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(ambiguous) to be a friend of the aristocracy: nobilitati favere (Sest. 9. 21)
- maintain a devout silence (properly, utter no ill-omened word): favete ore, linguis = εὐφημειτε
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill