different between favorable vs favor

English

Pronunciation

Adjective

favorable (comparative more favorable, superlative most favorable)

1. (American spelling) Alternative form of favourable

Derived terms

• unfavorable

Related terms

• favor
• favorably

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin favorabilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /f?.vo??a.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /f?.bu??a.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fa.vo??a.ble/

Adjective

favorable (masculine and feminine plural favorables)

1. favourable

Further reading

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

French

Etymology

From Latin favorabilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.v?.?abl/

Adjective

favorable (plural favorables)

1. favourable, favorable

Antonyms

• hostile

Related terms

• faveur
• favorablement

Further reading

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

Galician

Alternative forms

• favorábel

Etymology

From Latin favorabilis.

Adjective

favorable m or f (plural favorables)

1. favorable

Derived terms

• favorablemente

Further reading

• “favorable” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin favorabilis

Adjective

favorable m (feminine singular favorabla, masculine plural favorables, feminine plural favorablas)

1. favorable

Derived terms

• desfavorable
• favorablament

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin favorabilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fabo??able/, [fa.??o??a.??le]

Adjective

favorable (plural favorables)

1. favorable

Derived terms

• favorablemente

Further reading

• “favorable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)

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.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)

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