different between favonius vs zephyrus

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

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (Zéphuros, “Zephyrus, the west wind”). Not related to zephirum or sefiroth.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ze.p?y.rus/, [?d??z??p????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?d?ze.fi.rus/, [?d??z???fi?us]

Noun

zephyrus m (genitive zephyr?); second declension

1. the west wind, Zephyrus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (west wind): fav?nius

Antonyms

• (west wind): ap?li?t?s, subs?l?nus, s?l?nus

Learned borrowings

• ? English: Zephyrus
• ? Italian: zefiro
• ? Romanian: zefir
• ? Russian: ?????? (Zefír), ?????? (zefír, “marshmallow or sim.”)
• ? Spanish: Céfiro

References

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