English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin fautor.

Noun

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fautor (plural fautors)

  1. (obsolete) Patron, protector.
    • 1883, Martin Rule, The Life and Times of St. Anselm:
      The laity of England had refused to apostatise; the fautor of his schemes was dead; and then, then, as a last miserable alternative, he dropped from his ambitious height back into the foul slough of avarice, and plied all the arts of threat and of falsehood to reconfiscate the revenues of the see of Canterbury, and figured once more not as head of the Church, not as source of jurisdiction, not as lord of all, but merely as a croned robber.
  2. Admirer, one who favours.
  3. Supporter, adherent, partisan.

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Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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From faveo +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fautor m (genitive fautōris, feminine fautrīx); third declension

  1. patron, protector
  2. admirer
  3. promoter, supporter

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fautor fautōrēs
Genitive fautōris fautōrum
Dative fautōrī fautōribus
Accusative fautōrem fautōrēs
Ablative fautōre fautōribus
Vocative fautor fautōrēs

Descendants

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  • Catalan: fautor (learned)
  • French: fauteur (learned)
  • Galician: fautor (learned)
  • Italian: fautore (learned)
  • Occitan: fautor (learned)
  • Portuguese: fautor (learned)
  • Spanish: fautor (learned)

References

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  • fautor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fautor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fautor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be a friend of the aristocracy: nobilitatis fautorem, studiosum esse
  • fautor in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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Etymology

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From Latin fautor.

Adjective

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fautor (feminine fautora, masculine plural fautores, feminine plural fautoras)

  1. acting as an accomplice

Noun

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fautor m (plural fautores, feminine fautora, feminine plural fautoras)

  1. accomplice

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