faustus

From syncope of *favestos, built by adding the adjective-forming suffix -tus to an s-stem noun derived from the root of faveō (“favor”).^[1] Compare iūstus, honestus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfau̯s.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfau̯s.t̪us]

faustus (feminine fausta, neuter faustum); first/second-declension adjective

1. favorable, fortunate, auspicious, prosperous, lucky

First/second-declension adjective.

• (favorable, fortunate): albus, auspicābilis, benignus, fēlīx, laetus, prosperus, secundus

• (antonym(s) of “favorable, fortunate”): infaustus

• faustitās
• faustē
• Faustus

• Italian: fausto
• Portuguese: fausto
• Spanish: fausto

• “faustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “faustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "faustus", 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)
• faustus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • may heaven's blessing rest on it: quod bonum, faustum, felix, fortunatumque sit! (Div. 1. 45. 102)
    
  • with favourable omens: faustis ominibus
    
• “faustus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray