# favo
## English
### Etymology

From favorite +‎ -o.

### Noun

favo (plural favos)
* (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........

### Adjective

favo (comparative more favo, superlative most favo)
* (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.

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin favus.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

favo (uncountable, accusative favon)
* ringworm, scurf

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese favo, from Latin favus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfaβo̝/

### Noun

favo m (plural favos)
* honeycomb

### References

* 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

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin favus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfa.vo/
* Rhymes: -avo
* Hyphenation: fà‧vo

### Noun

favo m (plural favi)
* honeycomb (bee's)

## Latin
### Noun

favō
* dative/ablative singular of favus

### References

* 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)

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese favo, from Latin favus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈfa.vu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈfa.vu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈfa.vo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈfa.vu/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈfa.vu/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈfa.bu/ [ˈfa.βu]
* Rhymes: -avu, (Northern Portugal) -abu
* Hyphenation: fa‧vo

### Noun

favo m (plural favos)
* honeycomb

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:favo.