favus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin favus (“honeycomb”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfeɪvəs/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪvəs
Noun
favus
- (medicine) A severe, chronic infection of ringworm.
- 1901 July 19, “Favus in Poultry”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 10, page 317:
- The first signs of an attack of favus are small, pale, irregular, cup-like spots on the comb or wattles, generally appearing on the comb first.
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- A tile or flagstone cut into a hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern.
Translations
infection
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References
- favus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin favus (“honeycomb”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa.vys/
Noun
favus m (uncountable)
- favus
Further reading
- “favus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
favus (honeycomb)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Related to English build.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.u̯us/, [ˈfäu̯ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.vus/, [ˈfäːvus]
Noun
favus m (genitive favī); second declension
- honeycomb
- 4th-century CE, Jerome of Stridon (St. Jerome), Vulgate, 24:13:
- comede fīlī mī mel quia bonum est et favum dulcissimum gutturī tuō
- Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat.
- (trans. Douay-Rheims Bible)
- Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat.
- comede fīlī mī mel quia bonum est et favum dulcissimum gutturī tuō
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.745-746:
- ut satyrī levisque senex tetigēre sapōrem,
quaerēbant flāvōs per nemus omne favōs- Since the satyrs and the bald-headed old man [Silenus] had tasted its flavor,
they were searching for the golden yellow honeycombs through all the grove.
(Note the poetic word play in the consonance and assonance of ‘‘flāvōs favōs.’’ For more honeyed mythology, see Liber, Dionysus, Silenus, and The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus.)
- Since the satyrs and the bald-headed old man [Silenus] had tasted its flavor,
- ut satyrī levisque senex tetigēre sapōrem,
- 4th-century CE, Jerome of Stridon (St. Jerome), Vulgate, 24:13:
- a hexagonal pavement stone
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | favus | favī |
| Genitive | favī | favōrum |
| Dative | favō | favīs |
| Accusative | favum | favōs |
| Ablative | favō | favīs |
| Vocative | fave | favī |
Descendants
- English: favus
- Esperanto: favo (“ringworm, scurf”)
- French: favus
- Galician: favo
- Italian: favo
- Portuguese: favo
- Romanian: fag, fagure
- Sicilian: favu
- Spanish: favo, havo
References
- “favus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “favus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- favus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Romanian
Etymology
From French favus.
Noun
favus n (plural favusuri)
- favus
Declension
Declension of favus
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) favus | favusul | (niște) favusuri | favusurile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) favus | favusului | (unor) favusuri | favusurilor |
| vocative | favusule | favusurilor | ||