fautorum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →faveo, favere, favi, fautus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
favor (w/DAT), befriend, support, back up;
gen. pl. perf. pass. part.gen. pl. perf. pass. part. - Entry →fautor, fautoris:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
patron, protector; admirer; supporter, partisan; who promotes/fosters interests;
gen. pl.
Examples
- T
Liber XLII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...semper inopem ab alterius iniuria. haec sentientes certamina fautorum utriusque partis taciti ex tuto spectabant. Consules..." - T
Liber XXXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Romana arma in propinquo haberent, tollere Brachyllem principem fautorum regis statuerunt. et tempore ad eam rem capto..." - G
FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...usus sallerent. Sed Pompeius a prima adulescentia sermone fautorum similem fore se credens Alexandro regi facta consultaque eius..." - P
Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...dicta eius. de modo lucaris et adversus lasciviam fautorum multa decernuntur; ex quis maxime insignia, ne domos pantomimorum..."