English
fautor
Fautor comes from Latin fautor ‘promoter, supporter’, and goes back to faveo.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfaveo‘to be favorable, to be well disposed or inclined towards, to favor, promote, befriend’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfautor‘promoter, supporter’
- Englishearliest quotation 1644same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfaveo‘to be favorable, to be well disposed or inclined towards, to favor, promote, befriend’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfautor‘promoter, supporter’
- Englishearliest quotation 1644same form
Earliest quotation: 1644, Edward Coke, London: Printed by M[iles] Flesher: “The effect of the ſtatute of 16 R. 2…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- ‘to be, become’
be, been, power, possible, present, future, build, physical, improve, presence, essential, bond, bush, bound, absence, contribution, physician, entity, booth, approve, probability, absent, fiat, distribute, bun, favorable, bouquet, contributor, imp, retribution, attribution, rebuke, impotent, impossibility, bower, aren, beamer, bosque, phylogeny, physic, 84 more
through Latin faveo ‘to be favorable, to be well disposed or…’
Today it means
noun Patron, protector.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin faveo / fautor