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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French favori. Doublet of favourite.
Noun
favori (plural favoris)
- A favorite.
1874, Robert Louis Stevenson, Letter to Mrs. Thomas Stevenson: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.
- (archaic, in the plural) Sideburns or side whiskers.
1831, Benjamin Disraeli, The Young Duke:M. de Whiskerburg was a young man, tall, with a fine figure, and 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 apter 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: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.
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Etymology
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Pronunciation
Verb
favori (present favoras, past favoris, future favoros, conditional favorus, volitive favoru)
- to favor
Conjugation
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 (cf. also absous, andalou, coi, esquimau).
Pronunciation
Adjective
favori (feminine favorite, masculine plural favoris, feminine plural favorites)
- favo(u)rite
- Synonym: préféré
Noun
favori m (plural favoris, feminine favorite)
- favo(u)rite
Noun
favori m (plural favoris)
- (in the plural) sideburns, side whiskers
Descendants
Further reading
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /faˈvo.ri/
- Rhymes: -ori
- Hyphenation: fa‧vó‧ri
Noun
favori m
- plural of favore
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
favōrī
- dative singular of favor
Norman
Etymology
From Old French favorit, favori, past participle of favorir (“to favor”).
Adjective
favori m
- (Jersey) favorite
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from French favori.
Pronunciation
Adjective
favori
- favourite (UK) / favorite (US)
- Synonym: gözde
Declension
predicative forms of favori
present tense
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positive, declarative
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positive, interrogative
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negative, declarative
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negative, interrogative
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ben (I am)
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favoriyim
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favori miyim?
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favori değilim
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favori değil miyim?
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sen (you are)
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favorisin
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favori misin?
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favori değilsin
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favori değil misin?
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o (he/she/it is)
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favori / favoridir
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favori mi?
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favori değil
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favori değil mi?
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biz (we are)
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favoriyiz
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favori miyiz?
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favori değiliz
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favori değil miyiz?
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siz (you are)
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favorisiniz
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favori misiniz?
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favori değilsiniz
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favori değil misiniz?
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onlar (they are)
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favori(ler)
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favori(ler) mi?
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favori değil(ler)
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favori değiller mi?
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past tense
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positive, declarative
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positive, interrogative
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negative, declarative
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negative, interrogative
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ben (I was)
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favoriydim
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favori miydim?
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favori değildim
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favori değil miydim?
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sen (you were)
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favoriydin
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favori miydin?
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favori değildin
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favori değil miydin?
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o (he/she/it was)
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favoriydi
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favori miydi?
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favori değildi
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favori değil miydi?
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biz (we were)
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favoriydik
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favori miydik?
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favori değildik
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favori değil miydik?
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siz (you were)
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favoriydiniz
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favori miydiniz?
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favori değildiniz
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favori değil miydiniz?
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onlar (they were)
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favoriydiler
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favori miydiler?
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favori değildi(ler) / değillerdi
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favori değil miydiler?
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indirect past
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positive, declarative
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positive, interrogative
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negative, declarative
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negative, interrogative
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ben (I was)
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favoriymişim
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favori miymişim?
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favori değilmişim
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favori değil miymişim?
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sen (you were)
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favoriymişsin
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favori miymişsin?
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favori değilmişsin
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favori değil miymişsin?
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o (he/she/it was)
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favoriymiş
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favori miymiş?
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favori değilmiş
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favori değil miymiş?
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biz (we were)
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favoriymişiz
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favori miymişiz?
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favori değilmişiz
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favori değil miymişiz?
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siz (you were)
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favoriymişsiniz
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favori miymişsiniz?
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favori değilmişsiniz
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favori değil miymişsiniz?
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onlar (they were)
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favoriymişler
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favori miymişler?
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favori değilmiş(ler) / değillermiş
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favori değil miymişler?
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conditional
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positive, declarative
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positive, interrogative
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negative, declarative
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negative, interrogative
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ben (if I)
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favoriysem
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favori miysem?
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favori değilsem
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favori değil miysem?
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sen (if you)
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favoriysen
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favori miysen?
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favori değilsen
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favori değil miysen?
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o (if he/she/it)
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favoriyse
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favori miyse?
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favori değilse
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favori değil miyse?
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biz (if we)
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favoriysek
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favori miysek?
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favori değilsek
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favori değil miysek?
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siz (if you)
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favoriyseniz
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favori miyseniz?
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favori değilseniz
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favori değil miyseniz?
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onlar (if they)
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favoriyseler
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favori miyseler?
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favori değilseler / değillerse
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favori değil miyseler?
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Noun
favori (definite accusative favoriyi, plural favoriler)
- favourite (UK) / favorite (US)
- Synonym: gözde
- sideburns
Declension