different between favour vs endow

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

favour (countable and uncountable, plural favours)

1. (British spelling) Standard spelling of favor.

Derived terms

• out of favour

Translations

Verb

favour (third-person singular simple present favours, present participle favouring, simple past and past participle favoured)

1. (British spelling) Standard spelling of favor.
   • 1611, KJV, Luke 1:28:

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

Usage notes

• Favour is the standard British and Commonwealth spelling. Favor is the standard American spelling, and an alternative in Canada.

Translations

Old French

Noun

favour f (oblique plural favours, nominative singular favour, nominative plural favours)

1. Late Anglo-Norman spelling of favor

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English endowen, endouen, enduen, indouen, indw (“to provide with assets, a livelihood, or privileges; to bestow, grant; (figuratively) to favour; to endow”), from Anglo-Norman endouer, from Old French en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’) + douer (“to endow”) (from Latin d?t?re (present active infinitive of d?t? (“to endow”)); modern French douer). D?t? is derived from d?s (“dowry; endowment, gift”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh?- (“to give”)) + -? (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?da?/, /?n-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?da?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Hyphenation: en?dow

Verb

endow (third-person singular simple present endows, present participle endowing, simple past and past participle endowed)

1. (transitive, archaic or obsolete) To provide with a dower (“the portion that a widow receives from her deceased husband's property”) or a dowry (“property given to a bride”).
2. (transitive) To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.
3. (transitive) Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.

   Synonym: begift
4. (transitive) Usually in the passive: to naturally furnish (with something).

   Synonyms: bless, gift

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• indow (obsolete)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• financial endowment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Downe, Woden, downe, nowed, owned, woned