favo

From favorite +‎ -o.

favo (plural favos)

1. (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, [email protected], “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........

favo (comparative more favo, superlative most favo)

1. (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, [email protected], “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.

Borrowed from Latin favus.

• Audio:

  (file)

favo (uncountable, accusative favon)

1. ringworm, scurf

From Old Galician-Portuguese favo, from Latin favus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaβo̝/

favo m (plural favos)

1. honeycomb

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “favo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “favo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “favo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin favus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.vo/
• Rhymes: -avo
• Hyphenation: fà‧vo

favo m (plural favi)

1. honeycomb (bee's)

favō

1. dative/ablative singular of favus

• 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)

From Old Galician-Portuguese favo, from Latin favus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”).

• Rhymes: -avu, (Northern Portugal) -abu
• Hyphenation: fa‧vo

favo m (plural favos)

1. honeycomb

For quotations using this term, see Citations:favo.