See also: favorì

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French favori. Doublet of favourite.

Noun

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favori (plural favoris)

  1. A favorite.
    • 1874, Robert Louis Stevenson, Letter to Mrs. Thomas Stevenson[1]:
      Into the bargain with Marie, the American girl, who is grace itself, and comes leaping and dancing simply like a wave—like nothing else, and who yesterday was Queen out of the Epiphany cake and chose Robinet (the French Painter) as her favori with the most pretty confusion possible—into the bargain with Marie, we have two little Russian girls, with the youngest of whom, a little polyglot button of a three-year old, I had the most laughable little scene at lunch to-day.
    • 1908, Lilian Rea, The Life and Times of Marie Madeleine Countess of La Fayette, Methuen, page 109:
      With characteristic humour, Ninon divided her admirers into three classes: her martyrs, her caprices and her favoris, and into one or other of these classes fell nearly every gallant in Paris.
    • 1991, A. Lloyd Moote, Louis XIII, the Just, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 149:
      Observers of his behavior were quick to note the inner conflict as revealed by the king's inability to be separated from his favori, and his cutting remarks about "King Luynes" in the heat of the siege warfare of 1621.
    • 2010, Robert Greene, The 48 Laws Of Power, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 257:
      Even more distinguished were the martyrs, enjoying her company without paying for it and maintaining the hope, however remote, of some day becoming her favori.
  2. (archaic, in the plural) Sideburns or side whiskers.
    • 1831, Benjamin Disraeli, The Young Duke[2]:
      M. de Whiskerburg was a young man, tall, with a fine figure, and fine features. In short, a sort of Hungarian Apollo; only his beard, his mustachios, his whiskers, his favoris, his padishas, his sultanas, his mignonettas, his dulcibellas, did not certainly entitle him to the epithet of imberbis, and made him rather an apter representative of the Hungarian Hercules.
    • 1835, Sydney Morgan, The Princesse; Or the Beguine, Baudry, page 386:
      The Count twisted his favoris, twirled his moustaches, and bit his nether lip; then, taking up the Court Magazine, fixed his eyes on the portrait of the 'Hon. Frances Eleanor de Vere, Wentworth, St. Leger,' and muttered in an audible apostrophe, "How lovely! and how like!"
    • 1875, “Two Strings To One Beau”, in Tinsley's Magazine, volume 17, Tinsley Brothers, page 445:
      My normal condition is what my Broad-Church friend—that is, my quandam friend, for I have cut him—termed 'shoulder of mutton,' though I never heard of a should of mutton being soft and silky like my favoris.
    • 1915, Marcello Perathoner, The Girl Philippa[3]:
      Carefully combing out his favoris with a broken comb and greasing them with perfumed pomade flat over his sunken cheekbones, he fairly wriggled with his new sense of security and bodily comfort.
    • 1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, page 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.

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [faˈvori]
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  • Rhymes: -ori
  • Hyphenation: fa‧vo‧ri

Verb

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

  1. to favor

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French

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Etymology

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From Middle French favori, favorit (16th c.), from Italian favorito, past participle of favorire (to favour). The form in -it was borrowed directly from the Italian participle, while that in -i (feminine accordingly favorie) is in line with the Middle French verb favorir (now replaced with favoriser). Inconsistent standardization led to the modern hybrid forms (cf. also absous, andalou, coi, esquimau).

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Adjective

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

  1. favo(u)rite
    Synonym: préféré

Noun

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favori m (plural favoris, feminine favorite)

  1. favo(u)rite

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favori m (plural favoris)

  1. (in the plural) sideburns, side whiskers
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Descendants

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  • Danish: favorit
  • English: favori
  • Greek: φαβορί (favorí), φαβορίτα (favoríta)
  • Swedish: favorit
  • Turkish: favori

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /faˈvo.ri/
  • Rhymes: -ori
  • Hyphenation: fa‧vó‧ri

Noun

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favori m

  1. plural of favore

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Latin

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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favōrī

  1. dative singular of favor

Norman

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Etymology

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

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favori m

  1. (Jersey) favorite

Turkish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French favori.

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Adjective

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favori

  1. favourite (UK) / favorite (US)
    Synonym: gözde

Declension

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Noun

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favori (definite accusative favoriyi, plural favoriler)

  1. favourite (UK) / favorite (US)
    Synonym: gözde
  2. sideburns

Declension

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Inflection
Nominative favori
Definite accusative favoriyi
Singular Plural
Nominative favori favoriler
Definite accusative favoriyi favorileri
Dative favoriye favorilere
Locative favoride favorilerde
Ablative favoriden favorilerden
Genitive favorinin favorilerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular favorim favorilerim
2nd singular favorin favorilerin
3rd singular favorisi favorileri
1st plural favorimiz favorilerimiz
2nd plural favoriniz favorileriniz
3rd plural favorileri favorileri
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular favorimi favorilerimi
2nd singular favorini favorilerini
3rd singular favorisini favorilerini
1st plural favorimizi favorilerimizi
2nd plural favorinizi favorilerinizi
3rd plural favorilerini favorilerini
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular favorime favorilerime
2nd singular favorine favorilerine
3rd singular favorisine favorilerine
1st plural favorimize favorilerimize
2nd plural favorinize favorilerinize
3rd plural favorilerine favorilerine
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular favorimde favorilerimde
2nd singular favorinde favorilerinde
3rd singular favorisinde favorilerinde
1st plural favorimizde favorilerimizde
2nd plural favorinizde favorilerinizde
3rd plural favorilerinde favorilerinde
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular favorimden favorilerimden
2nd singular favorinden favorilerinden
3rd singular favorisinden favorilerinden
1st plural favorimizden favorilerimizden
2nd plural favorinizden favorilerinizden
3rd plural favorilerinden favorilerinden
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular favorimin favorilerimin
2nd singular favorinin favorilerinin
3rd singular favorisinin favorilerinin
1st plural favorimizin favorilerimizin
2nd plural favorinizin favorilerinizin
3rd plural favorilerinin favorilerinin
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular favoriyim favorilerim
2nd singular favorisin favorilersin
3rd singular favori
favoridir
favoriler
favorilerdir
1st plural favoriyiz favorileriz
2nd plural favorisiniz favorilersiniz
3rd plural favoriler favorilerdir