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English
Etymology
From Latin fautor.
Noun
fautor (plural fautors)
- (obsolete) Patron, protector.
1883, Martin Rule, The Life and Times of St. Anselm:The laity of England had refused to apostatise; the fautor of his schemes was dead; and then, then, as a last miserable alternative, he dropped from his ambitious height back into the foul slough of avarice, and plied all the arts of threat and of falsehood to reconfiscate the revenues of the see of Canterbury, and figured once more not as head of the Church, not as source of jurisdiction, not as lord of all, but merely as a croned robber.
- Admirer, one who favours.
- Supporter, adherent, partisan.
- 1644, Edward Coke, The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning High Treason, and Other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminall Causes, London: Printed by M Flesher, for W Lee and D Pakeman, OCLC 12388731; reprinted as The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning High Treason, and other Pleas of the Crown. And Criminal Causes, 15th edition, London: Printed for E. and R. Brooke, Bell-Yard, near Temple-Bar, 1797, OCLC 76956988, pages 119–*120:
- The effect of the ſtatute of 16 R. 2 [Statute of Praemunire (16 Ric. II, chapter 5)] is, if any purſue or cauſe to be purſued in the court of Rome, or elſewhere, any thing with toucheth the king, againſt him, his crowne and regality, or his realme, their notaries, procurators, &c. fautors, &c. ſhall be out of the kings protection.
- 1894, Wilson Lloyd Bevan, Sir William Petty : A Study in english Economic Literature. Publications of the American Economic Association, vol. IX, no. 4, p. 17:
- ...Edmund Wyld, Esq., also, then a member of Parliament and a great fautor of ingenious and good men for mere merit's sake...
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Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From faveo + -tor.
Pronunciation
Noun
fautor m (genitive fautōris, feminine fautrīx); third declension
- patron, protector
- admirer
- promoter, supporter
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “fautor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fautor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fautor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be a friend of the aristocracy: nobilitatis fautorem, studiosum esse
- fautor in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin fautor.
Adjective
fautor (feminine fautora, masculine plural fautores, feminine plural fautoras)
- acting as an accomplice
Noun
fautor m (plural fautores, feminine fautora, feminine plural fautoras)
- accomplice
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