different between favonius vs zephyr

Latin

Alternative forms

• fa?nius

Etymology

Implying Proto-Italic *fav? (“one who favors/warms”): either from the root of fave? (“to favor”) and Faunus (itself of disputed etymology), or from that of fove? (“to warm, cherish”), with the *low- > law development of cave?, lav? (a.k.a. Thurneysen-Havet's Law).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fa?u?o?.ni.us/, [fä?u?o?ni?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fa?vo.ni.us/, [f??v??nius]

Noun

fav?nius m (genitive fav?ni? or fav?n?); second declension

1. the west wind, Zephyrus
2. A Roman proper name

Declension

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

• (west wind): zephyrus

Antonyms

• (west wind): subs?l?nus, eurus

Derived terms

• fav?ni?lis
• fav?ni?nus

Descendants

• ? Old High German: phonno
  • German: Föhn (“warm wind; hair dryer”), Fön
    • ? Catalan: foehn
    • ? Chinese:

      Mandarin: ?? (fénf?ng)

    • ? Czech: fén
    • ? Danish: føn
    • ? Dutch: föhn
      • ? Indonesian: fon
    • ? English: foehn
    • ? Finnish: föhn
    • ? French: foehn
    • ? Hebrew: ???? (fen)
    • ? Hungarian: f?n
    • ? Italian: föhn, fon, föhn
    • ? Macedonian: ??? (fen)
    • ? Russian: ??? (fen)
      • ? Armenian: ??? (fen)
    • ? Serbo-Croatian: fen
    • ? Slovak: fén, fön
    • ? Swedish: fön
      • ? Finnish: fööni
    • ? Ukrainian: ??? (fen)
• ? Koine Greek: ??????? (Pha?nios)
  • Greek: ??????? (Faónios)
• Italian: fogno, ? favonio
• Romansch: favugn

References

• favonius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• favonius in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• favonius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “favonius”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

English

Alternative forms

• zephir
• zefir

Etymology

From Latin zephyrus (“west wind”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (Zéphuros).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /z?f?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /z?f?/
• Rhymes: -?f?(?)

Noun

zephyr (plural zephyrs)

1. A light wind from the west.

   Synonym: westerly

   • 1671, R. Bohun, A Discourse Concerning the Origine and Properties of Wind, Oxford: Tho. Bowman, pp. 149-150,^[1]

     The Western [winds] have been Counted the mildest, & most Auspicious of all others; and were so highly in favour with the Poets, that they thought them worthy of the Golden Age, and to refresh the Elysian groves. [...] But though the Breathing Zephyrs are so much celebrated in Poems and Romances, and happily were kinder to the delicious countries of Italy, & Greece, yet wee find no lesse malignity in their natures from particular accidents and climats, then what wee have observ’d of other Winds.

2. Any light refreshing wind; a gentle breeze.
3. Anything of fine, soft, or light quality, especially fabric.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

zephyr (third-person singular simple present zephyrs, present participle zephyring, simple past and past participle zephyred)

1. (intransitive, poetic) To blow or move like a zephyr, or light breeze.
   • 1879, Robert Stephen Hawker, “An Inscription for an Aged Oak” in The Poetical Works, London: The Bodley Head, p. 171,^[2]

     There was a time

     When the soft zephyring spring came joyfully,

     Like a young bride, with bloom upon her cheek—

   • 1908, Clarence E. Mulford, The Coming of Hopalong Cassidy, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 4, p. 60,^[3]

     There was a sudden scrambling and thumping overhead and hot exclamations zephyred down to them.
2. (transitive, poetic) To blow or blow on gently like a zephyr; to cool or refresh with a gentle breeze.
   • 1849, letter from Leonidas Lent Hamline dated 15 December, 1849, in Walter Clark Palmer, Life and Letters of Leonidas L. Hamline, D.D., New York: Carlton & Porter, 1866, Chapter 15, p. 361,^[4]

     He was a fragrant poison, a zephyred pestilence spread through all the city.

   • 1914, Leonard Lanson Cline, untitled sonnet in Poems, Boston: The Poet Lore Company, p. 76,^[5]

     Ah, but the skies are joyous in the spring,

     From dawn to dusk exuberantly blue;

     White-tufted oftentimes with clouds that do

     But wanton in heaven’s zephyred merrying!

   • 1914, Juliane Paulsen (pseudonym of Juliane Grace Hansen), “Poppy Fantasy” in And Then Came Spring, Boston: The Gorham Press, p. 49,^[6]

     Oh, graciously she led my soul within

     Where ever and forever went a wind

     In zephyred streams of poppies coursing sweet

     About the place, and waves of poppy heat

     About us there.