English

Noun

favus ‎(uncountable)

1. (medicine) A severe, chronic infection of ringworm.
2. A tile or flagstone cut into a hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern.

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Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.vys/

Noun

favus m ‎(uncountable)

1. favus

Latin

favus (honeycomb)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- ‎(“to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Related to English build.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.wus/

Noun

favus m ‎(genitive favī); second declension

1. honeycomb
2. a hexagonal pavement stone

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

References

• favus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• favus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “favus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.