fautor

English

Alternative forms

• fautour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin fautor.

Noun

fautor (plural fautors)

1. (obsolete) Patron, protector.
   • 1883, Martin Rule, The Life and Times of St. Anselm:

     The laity of England had refused to apostatise; the fautor of his schemes was dead; and then, then, as a last miserable alternative, he dropped from his ambitious height back into the foul slough of avarice, and plied all the arts of threat and of falsehood to reconfiscate the revenues of the see of Canterbury, and figured once more not as head of the Church, not as source of jurisdiction, not as lord of all, but merely as a croned robber.

2. Admirer, one who favours.
3. Supporter, adherent, partisan.
   • 1644, Edward Coke, The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning High Treason, and Other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminall Causes, London: Printed by M[iles] Flesher, for W[illiam] Lee and D[aniel] Pakeman, OCLC 12388731; reprinted as The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning High Treason, and other Pleas of the Crown. And Criminal Causes, 15th edition, London: Printed for E. and R. Brooke, Bell-Yard, near Temple-Bar, 1797, OCLC 76956988, pages 119–*120:

     The effect of the ſtatute of 16 R. 2 [Statute of Praemunire (16 Ric. II, chapter 5)] is, if any purſue or cauſe to be purſued in the court of Rome, or elſewhere, any thing with toucheth the king, againſt him, his crowne and regality, or his realme, their notaries, procurators, &c. fautors, &c. ſhall be out of the kings protection.

   • 1894, Wilson Lloyd Bevan, Sir William Petty : A Study in english Economic Literature. Publications of the American Economic Association, vol. IX, no. 4, p. 17:

     ...Edmund Wyld, Esq., also, then a member of Parliament and a great fautor of ingenious and good men for mere merit's sake...

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “fautor”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• far out, far-out, foutra

Latin

Etymology

From faveo +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfau̯.tor/, [ˈfäu̯t̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfau̯.tor/, [ˈfäːu̯t̪or]

Noun

fautor m (genitive fautōris, feminine fautrīx); third declension

1. patron, protector
2. admirer
3. promoter, supporter

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fautor	fautōrēs
genitive	fautōris	fautōrum
dative	fautōrī	fautōribus
accusative	fautōrem	fautōrēs
ablative	fautōre	fautōribus
vocative	fautor	fautōrēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: fautor (learned)
• → French: fauteur (learned)
• → Galician: fautor (learned)
• → Italian: fautore (learned)
• → Occitan: fautor (learned)
• → Portuguese: fautor (learned)
• → Spanish: fautor (learned)

References

• “fautor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fautor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fautor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be a friend of the aristocracy: nobilitatis fautorem, studiosum esse
    
• fautor in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin fautor.

Adjective

fautor (feminine fautora, masculine plural fautores, feminine plural fautoras)

1. acting as an accomplice

Noun

fautor m (plural fautores, feminine fautora, feminine plural fautoras)

1. accomplice

Further reading

• “fautor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10