Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone). · Goodwill; benevolent regard. · A small gift; a party favor. · Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo look upon fondly; to prefer. · To use more often. · To encourage, conduce to · To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-der.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂weh₁yetider.? Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰew-der.? Latin faveō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin favor Old French favorbor. Middle English favour English favor From Middle English favour, favor, faver, from Anglo-Norman favour, from mainland Old French favor, from Latin favor (“good will; kindness; partiality”), from faveō (“to be kind to”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂weh₁yeti (“to be favourable to”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine, glow light”). Respelled in American English to more closely match its Latin etymon. Compare also Danish favør (“favor”), Irish fabhar (“favor”), from the same Romance source.
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