Noun: favori
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | favori |
| Singular f | favorite |
| Plural m | favoris |
Sample Sentences
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Il avait un espoir sans but, un bonheur vague; il se trouvait la figure plus agréable en brossant ses favoris devant son miroir. [1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:]
Nouns inflected like favori
pauvret,
simplet,
poussinet,
blondinet,
griot,
goret,
minet,
bicot,
cadet,
sot,
mouflet,
favori,
marmot,
chouchou,
proprio,
poucet,
muet,
chat,
typo,
rigolo, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle French favori, favorit (16th c.), from Italian favorito, past participle of favorire (“to favour”). The form in -it was borrowed directly from the Italian participle, while that in -i (feminine accordingly favorie) is in line with the Middle French verb favorir (now replaced with favoriser). Inconsistent standardization led to the modern hybrid forms (compare also absous, andalou, coi, esquimau). See: Italian Nouns '
favorito'.
Verbs referencing "favori"
English Nouns
favori, Swedish Nouns
favorit, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
favoritt, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
favoritt.
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