favorecer

favorecer

1. to control
2. to favor/favour

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From favor +‎ -ecer.

• Hyphenation: fa‧vo‧re‧cer

favorecer (first-person singular present favoreço, first-person singular preterite favoreci, past participle favorecido)

1. (transitive)
   1. to give assistance to; protect; support
   2. to do a favor to
   3. to benefit from partiality; take part of
   4. to be favorable or conducive to
   5. to give more strength to; corroborate
   6. to provide good attributes; to praise
   7. to present (someone or something) as better than they actually are
2. (reflexive)
   1. to avail; help
   2. to take advantage of oneself

• “favorecer”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “favorecer”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From favor +‎ -ecer.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /faboɾeˈθeɾ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /faboɾeˈseɾ/
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: fa‧vo‧re‧cer

favorecer (first-person singular present favorezco, first-person singular preterite favorecí, past participle favorecido)

1. (transitive) to support

   Synonym: apoyar

2. (transitive) to favor / favour (show beneficence toward)
3. (transitive) to suit (to be suitable or apt for one's image)

   Synonym: sentar bien

• desfavorecer

• “favorecer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10