favori

See also: favorì

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French favori. Doublet of favourite.

Noun

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], chapter XIX, in The Young Duke. […], volume II (book III), London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 247–248:

     M. de Whiskerburg was a very young man, very tall, with a very fine figure, and very 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 after-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^[2]:

     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.

References

• “favori”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Esperanto

Etymology

Etymology tree

Esperanto favora

Proto-Italic *-jezi

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Latin -ereinflu.

Latin -īre

French -irbor.?

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Latin -īre

Spanish -irbor.?

Proto-Indo-European *-yétider.

Latin -īre

Old Galician-Portuguese -ir

Portuguese -irbor.?

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Latin -ire

Italian -irebor.?

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Latin -iō

Romanian -ibor.?

Esperanto -i

Esperanto favori

From favora (“favorable”) + -i (infinitive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faˈvori/

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• Rhymes: -ori
• Syllabification: fa‧vo‧ri

Verb

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

1. to favor

Conjugation

Conjugation of favori

		present		past		future
		singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
tense		favoras		favoris		favoros
active participle		favoranta	favorantaj	favorinta	favorintaj	favoronta	favorontaj
	acc.	favorantan	favorantajn	favorintan	favorintajn	favorontan	favorontajn
passive participle		favorata	favorataj	favorita	favoritaj	favorota	favorotaj
	acc.	favoratan	favoratajn	favoritan	favoritajn	favorotan	favorotajn
nominal active participle		favoranto	favorantoj	favorinto	favorintoj	favoronto	favorontoj
	acc.	favoranton	favorantojn	favorinton	favorintojn	favoronton	favorontojn
nominal passive participle		favorato	favoratoj	favorito	favoritoj	favoroto	favorotoj
	acc.	favoraton	favoratojn	favoriton	favoritojn	favoroton	favorotojn
adverbial active participle		favorante		favorinte		favoronte
adverbial passive participle		favorate		favorite		favorote
		infinitive	favori	imperative	favoru	conditional	favorus

Further reading

• “favori”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “favori”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

French

Etymology

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 (compare also absous, andalou, coi, esquimau).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.vɔ.ʁi/

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Adjective

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

1. favo(u)rite

   Synonym: préféré

Noun

favori m (plural favoris, feminine favorite)

1. favo(u)rite

Noun

favori m (plural favoris)

1. (in the plural) sideburns, side whiskers
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[3], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Il avait un espoir sans but, un bonheur vague; il se trouvait la figure plus agréable en brossant ses favoris devant son miroir.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Related terms

• favoriser
• favoritisme

Descendants

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

Further reading

• “favori”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

favori m

1. plural of favore

Anagrams

• foravi, forvia

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [faˈwoː.riː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [faˈvɔː.ri]

Noun

favōrī

1. dative singular of favor

Norman

Etymology

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

Adjective

favori m

1. (Jersey) favorite

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French favori.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.vɔ.ɾi/

Adjective

favori

1. favourite (UK) / favorite (US)

   Synonym: gözde

Declension

Predicative forms of favori

present tense
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (I am)	favoriyim	favori miyim?
sen (you are)	favorisin	favori misin?
o (he/she/it is)	favori / favoridir	favori mi?
biz (we are)	favoriyiz	favori miyiz?
siz (you are)	favorisiniz	favori misiniz?
onlar (they are)	favori(ler)	favori(ler) mi?
past tense
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (I was)	favoriydim	favori miydim?
sen (you were)	favoriydin	favori miydin?
o (he/she/it was)	favoriydi	favori miydi?
biz (we were)	favoriydik	favori miydik?
siz (you were)	favoriydiniz	favori miydiniz?
onlar (they were)	favoriydiler	favori miydiler?
indirect past
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (I was)	favoriymişim	favori miymişim?
sen (you were)	favoriymişsin	favori miymişsin?
o (he/she/it was)	favoriymiş	favori miymiş?
biz (we were)	favoriymişiz	favori miymişiz?
siz (you were)	favoriymişsiniz	favori miymişsiniz?
onlar (they were)	favoriymişler	favori miymişler?
conditional
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (if I)	favoriysem	favori miysem?
sen (if you)	favoriysen	favori miysen?
o (if he/she/it)	favoriyse	favori miyse?
biz (if we)	favoriysek	favori miysek?
siz (if you)	favoriyseniz	favori miyseniz?
onlar (if they)	favoriyseler	favori miyseler?

For negative forms, use the appropriate form of değil.

Noun

favori (definite accusative favoriyi, plural favoriler)

1. favourite (UK) / favorite (US)

   Synonym: gözde

2. sideburns

Declension

Declension of favori

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