favus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin favus (“honeycomb”).

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -eɪvəs

Noun

favus

  1. (medicine) A severe, chronic infection of ringworm.
  2. A tile or flagstone cut into a hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for favus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin favus (“honeycomb”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fa.vys/

Noun

favus m (uncountable)

  1. favus

Further reading

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.wus/, [ˈfa.wʊs]

Noun

favus m (genitive favī); second declension

  1. honeycomb
  2. a hexagonal pavement stone

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative favus favī
Genitive favī favōrum
Dative favō favīs
Accusative favum favōs
Ablative favō favīs
Vocative fave favī

Descendants

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
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