favo
English
Noun
favo (plural favos)
- (colloquial) clipping of favorite.
- 1998 June 11, SilverWolf, “Aliens movies”, in alt.horror.werewolves (Usenet):
- I like mostly all sci-fi movies, but the Alien-saga is one of my favo's. My favo part of the serie's is part II, BTW.
- 1999 July 5, diasp...@my-dejanews.com, “Kind...gentel sca...perhaps?”, in soc.culture.algeria (Usenet):
- M. Mameri, writer Da el Mouloud is one of my favo too.
- 2001 March 9, lollo, “My favo”, in alt.pantyhose (Usenet):
- This Is my favo........
Adjective
favo (comparative more favo, superlative most favo)
- (colloquial) clipping of favorite.
- 1998 June 11, SilverWolf, “Aliens movies”, in alt.horror.werewolves (Usenet):
- I like mostly all sci-fi movies, but the Alien-saga is one of my favo's. My favo part of the serie's is part II, BTW.
- 1999 October 20, diasp...@my-deja.com, “att : my favo schizo!!”, in soc.culture.algeria (Usenet):
- Well, my favo schizo has different names. Let us see: dukie, milo, slobo, hitler..etc.
- 2006 June 21, Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek, “Sound in multiple Linux progs”, in lucky.freebsd.emulation (Usenet):
- But as long as I can play my favo MP3-collection, I'm satisfied.
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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese favo, from Latin favus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfaβo̝/
References
- “favo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “favo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “favo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Etymology
From Latin favus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfa.vo/
- Rhymes: -avo
- Hyphenation: fà‧vo
Latin
References
- favo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese favo, from Latin favus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfa.vu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfa.vo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈfa.vu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈfa.bu/ [ˈfa.βu]
- Rhymes: -avu, (Northern Portugal) -abu
- Hyphenation: fa‧vo
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:favo.
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