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favere

favere is a Latin form of faveo, meaning “favor, support (+dat.)”. It is the 3rd person plural perfect active indicative or 2nd person singular present passive imperative or 2nd person singular present passive indicative or present active infinitive.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.18.8: Favere et cupere Helvetiis propter eam adfinitatem, odisse etiam suo nomine Caesarem et Romanos, quod eorum adventu potentia eius deminuta et Diviciacus frater in antiquum locum gratiae atque honoris sit restitutus.

Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum 85: … tutari; nam alia infirma sunt. Et illud intellego, Quirites, omnium ora in me conuersa esse, aequos bonosque fauere—quippe mea bene facta rei publicae procedunt—, nobilitatem locum invadendi quaerere. Quo mihi acrius annitend …

All forms of faveo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.