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English

Noun

favas

1. plural of fava

Portuguese

Noun

favas

1. plural of fava

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin favus (“honeycomb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fe?v?s/
• Rhymes: -e?v?s

Noun

favus

1. (medicine) A severe, chronic infection of ringworm.
2. A tile or flagstone cut into a hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern.

References

• favus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin favus (“honeycomb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.vys/

Noun

favus m (uncountable)

1. favus

Further reading

• “favus” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *b??w- (“to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Related to English build.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fa.u?us/, [?fäu?os?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fa.vus/, [?f??vus]

Noun

favus m (genitive fav?); second declension

1. honeycomb
2. a hexagonal pavement stone

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• favus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• favus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• favus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French favus.

Noun

favus n (plural favusuri)

1. favus

Declension