Favonius

Learned borrowing from Latin Favōnius.

Favonius

1. (Roman mythology) The god of the west wind. He is also the husband of Flora and the father of Karpos. He is the Roman counterpart of Zephyrus.

• Anemoi, Aquilon

• Boreas/Septentrio (north), Notos/Auster (south), Eurus/Subsolanus (east), Zephyr/Zephyrus/Favonius (west)

From faveō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /faˈu̯oː.ni.us/, [fäˈu̯oːniʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /faˈvo.ni.us/, [fäˈvɔːnius]

Favōnius m sg (genitive Favōniī or Favōnī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Marcus Favonius, a Roman politician

Second-declension noun, singular only.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• Favōniānus

• “Favonius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Favonius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.