Favonius

Learned borrowing from Latin Favōnius.

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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): [faˈwoː.ni.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [faˈvɔː.ni.us]

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.