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English

Alternative forms

• favour (Commonwealth, Ireland)

Etymology

From Middle English favour, favor, faver, from Anglo-Norman favour, from mainland Old French favor, from Latin favor (“good will; kindness; partiality”), from fave? (“to be kind to”). Respelled in American English to more closely match its Latin etymon. Compare also Danish favør (“favor”), Irish fabhar (“favor”), from the same Romance source.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?fe?v?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?fe?v?/
• Rhymes: -e?v?(?)
• Hyphenation: fa?vor

Noun

favor (countable and uncountable, plural favors) (American spelling, alternative in Canada)

1. A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).

2. Goodwill; benevolent regard.
3. A small gift; a party favor.

   A marriage favour is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding.

   • ca. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act IV, sc. 7:

     Here, Fluellen; wear thou this favour for me and

     stick it in thy cap: when Alencon and myself were

     down together, I plucked this glove from his helm […]

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackery, Vanity Fair, Chapter 22:

     The rain drove into the bride and bridegroom's faces as they passed to the chariot. The postilions' favours draggled on their dripping jackets.

4. Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.

   • I could not discover the lenity and favour of this sentence.

5. The object of regard; person or thing favoured.
6. (obsolete) Appearance; look; countenance; face.
7. (law) Partiality; bias.

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8. (archaic) A letter, a written communication.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 68:

     I will now take some notice of your last favour; but being so far behind-hand with you, must be brief.

9. (obsolete) Anything worn publicly as a pledge of a woman's favor.
10. (obsolete, in the plural) Lovelocks.

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Usage notes

• Favor is the standard US spelling, and an alternative in Canada. Favour is the standard spelling in Canada and outside North America.
• English speakers usually "do someone a favor" (rather than *"make them a favor", which would be sense 3 only). See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for uses and meaning of favor collocated with these words.

Antonyms

• disfavor
• discriminate
• discrimination
• harm
• sabotage
• unfavor

Synonyms

• aid
• help
• lend a hand
• token

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

favor (third-person singular simple present favors, present participle favoring, simple past and past participle favored) (US, alternative in Canada, transitive)

1. To look upon fondly; to prefer.
   • 1611, Luke 1:28, King James version

     And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.

   • 2007, Bert Casper, Shadow Upon the Dream: Book 1: Barrûn, page 537:

     […] alone, without having to favor his right, uninjured leg, […]

2. To encourage, conduce to
3. To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward.

4. To treat with care.

5. (in dialects, including Southern US and Louisiana) To resemble, to look like (another person).
   • 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:

     ‘Mandy?’ he said, and stared at the girl. ‘Don't favor her too much.’ ‘Favors her dad,’ Latha said, and looked at him.

Synonyms

• abet
• assist
• endorse
• sanction

Antonyms

• disfavor
• discriminate

Derived terms

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin favor, attested from the 14th century.

Pronunciation

Noun

favor m or f (plural favors)

1. favour

Derived terms

• a favor de
• afavorir
• en favor de
• per favor

References

Further reading

• “favor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “favor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “favor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese favor.

Noun

favor

1. favour
2. pleasure

Latin

Etymology

From fave? (“I am well disposed or inclined toward, favor, countenance, befriend”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fa.u?or/, [?fäu??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fa.vor/, [?f??v?r]

Noun

favor m (genitive fav?ris); third declension

1. good will, inclination, partiality, favor
2. support

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• favor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• favor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• favor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• favor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
• favor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Norn

Alternative forms

• fa vor (rare)

Etymology

From Old Norse faðir (“father”) + vár (“our”), from Proto-Germanic *fad?r + *unseraz, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r. Compare Shetlandic fy vor.

Noun

favor

1. (Orkney) our father

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin favor.

Noun

favor f (plural favors)

1. favor

Derived terms

• favorable
• favorir
• favorisar
• favorit
• favoritisme
• favorablament
• afavorir
• en favor de
• a favor de
• per favor
• faire una favor
• dar les favors

Antonyms

• desfavor

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin favor (“favour; good will”), from fave? (“I favour”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?oweh? (“to notice”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /f?.?vo?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fa.?vo?/, [f?.?vo?]
• Hyphenation: fa?vor

Noun

favor m (plural favores)

1. favour (instance of voluntarily assisting someone)
2. favour; goodwill (benevolent regard)

   Synonyms: (obsolete) favorança, graça, mercê

Derived terms

• a favor de
• em favor de
• fazer o favor de
• por favor

Related terms

Adverb

favor (not comparable)

1. (before a verb in the infinitive) please (seen on warnings and the like)

Romanian

Noun

favor n (plural favoruri)

1. Alternative form of favoare

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin favor (genitive singular fav?ris).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?bo?/, [fa???o?]
• Hyphenation: fa?vor

Noun

favor m (plural favores)

1. favor/favour

Derived terms

Related terms

• favorable
• favorecer
• favoritismo
• favorito

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian favore

Noun

favor m (plural favuri)

1. favour

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French favori. Doublet of favourite.

Noun

favori (plural favoris)

1. A lock of loose hair at the temple.
   • 1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, p. 141:

     they called him the phantom walrus – an animal, it is true, Tubbs had come to resemble, swathed against the fog and mist in an oversized raincoat (Tubbs was losing weight), his favoris bristling on his cheeks like tusks and glistening with weather.

Esperanto

Etymology

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Verb

favori (present favoras, past favoris, future favoros, conditional favorus, volitive favoru)

1. to favor

Conjugation

French

Etymology

From Italian favorito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.v?.?i/

Adjective

favori (feminine singular favorite, masculine plural favoris, feminine plural favorites)

1. favourite (UK) / favorite (US)

   Synonym: préféré

Noun

favori m (plural favoris, feminine favorite)

1. favorite

favori m (plural favoris)

1. (in the plural) sideburns, side whiskers

Related terms

• favoritisme

Descendants

• ? Danish: favorit
• ? English: favori
• ? Swedish: favorit
• ? Turkish: favori

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

favori m

1. plural of favore

Anagrams

• foravi

Latin

Noun

fav?r?

1. dative singular of favor

Norman

Etymology

From Old French favorit, favori, past participle of favorir (“to favor”).

Adjective

favori m

1. (Jersey) favorite

Turkish

Etymology

From French favori.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.v?.?i/

Adjective

favori (comparative daha favori, superlative en favori)

1. favourite (UK) / favorite (US)

   Synonym: gözde

Declension

Noun

favori (definite accusative favoriyi, plural favoriler)

1. favourite (UK) / favorite (US)

   Synonym: gözde

Declension