English
infaust
Infaust comes from Latin īnfaustus ‘unfavorable, unfortunate, unpropitious,…’, from faustus ‘fortunate, lucky’, and ultimately from faveō ‘favor’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfaveō‘favor’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfaustus‘fortunate, lucky’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnfaustus‘unfavorable, unfortunate, unpropitious, luckless, ill-fated, inauspicious, unlucky’
- Englishearliest quotation 1849infaust
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfaveō‘favor’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfaustus‘fortunate, lucky’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnfaustus‘unfavorable, unfortunate, unpropitious, luckless, ill-fated, inauspicious, unlucky’
- Englishearliest quotation 1849infaust
Earliest quotation: 1849, Edward Bulwer-Lytton: “Nevertheless, it was an infaust and sinister augury for…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- ‘to be, become’
be, been, power, possible, future, present, build, physical, improve, presence, essential, bond, bound, absence, contribution, bush, physician, entity, booth, approve, probability, absent, contributor, favorable, distribute, fiat, bun, bouquet, retribution, attribution, imp, rebuke, impotent, impossibility, bower, aren, beamer, bosque, phylogeny, physic, 84 more
through Latin faveō ‘favor’
Today it means
adj Unlucky, unfortunate, ill-omened; unpropitious; sinister.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin faveō / infaust