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, diasp...@my-dejanews.com, “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, diasp...@my-deja.com, “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:

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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.