faveo.
to be favorable, to be well disposed or inclined towards, to favor, promote, befriend, countenance, protect
Meaning & usage
to be favorable, to be well disposed or inclined towards, to favor, promote, befriend, countenance, protect
to favor
to countenance, applaud, support, encourage, indulge
Where this word comes from
Uncertain. * Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to be, become”) or Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine, to glow light”) via a stative *bʰh₂weh₁yeti (“to be favorable to”) (> *fawēō or a causative *bʰowh₂eyeti (> *faweō). * Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰew- (cognate with Proto-Slavic *gověti), via either a causative *gʷʰow-éye-ti > *faweō or a stative *gʷʰow-éh₁-yeti > *fawēō. (Kroonen derives the Slavic forms from the stative formation.) De Vaan considers the semantic connection with the root *gʷʰew- (“to worship, heed”) not compelling. This root has alternatively been reconstructed as *gʰew-, but Schrijver argues that the change of *gʰow- to Latin fav- would be ad hoc (compare *gʰóstis > hostis). A change of heterosyllabic *-ow- to *-aw-, called Thurneysen-Havet's Law, is postulated to have applied regularly in Proto-Italic to syllables that had no PIE accent; compare caveō.
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