favus
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin favus (“honeycomb”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
favus (countable and uncountable, plural favi)
- (medicine) A severe, chronic infection of ringworm.
- 1901 July 19, “Favus in Poultry”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record[1], 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.
- A tile or flagstone cut into a hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
infection
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References edit
- “favus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin favus (“honeycomb”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
favus m (uncountable)
Further reading edit
- “favus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Related to English build.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.u̯us/, [ˈfäu̯ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.vus/, [ˈfäːvus]
Noun edit
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 edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | favus | favī |
Genitive | favī | favōrum |
Dative | favō | favīs |
Accusative | favum | favōs |
Ablative | favō | favīs |
Vocative | fave | favī |
Descendants edit
References edit
- “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 edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
favus n (plural favusuri)
Declension edit
Declension of favus
singular | plural | |||
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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 |