fa･vourの英語

名詞

favour (countable and uncountable, plural favours)

1. British standard spelling of favor.

   I need a favour. Could you lend me £5 until tomorrow, please?

   Can you do me a favour and drop these letters in the post box?

   • 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:

     Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.

動詞

favour (third-person singular simple present favours, present participle favouring, simple past and past participle favoured)

1. British standard spelling of favor.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:2:

     And the Angel came in vnto her, and said, Haile thou that art highly fauoured, the Lord is with thee: Blessed art thou among women.

   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”

   • 1959 April, B. Perren, “The Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 191:

     Clacton and Walton are resorts mostly favoured by Londoners and only three trains run through to the Midlands and North.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.

使用する際の注意点

• Favour is the standard British and Commonwealth spelling. Favor is the standard American spelling.

派生語

語源

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman favour, favur, from Latin favor.

発音

• IPA: /faːˈvuːr/, /ˈfaːvur/

名詞

favour (uncountable)

1. goodwill, benevolent regard
2. assistance, support, aid
3. attractiveness, beauty
4. partiality, prejudice
5. (rare) forgiveness, lenience

関連する語

• favourable
• favourere
• favouren

派生した語

• English: favor, favour (Commonwealth, Ireland)
• → Welsh: ffafr

参照

• “fāvǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.