faustus

See also: Faustus

Latin

Etymology

From syncope of *favestos, built by adding the adjective-forming suffix -tus to an s-stem noun derived from the root of faveō (“favor”).[1] Compare iūstus, honestus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

faustus (feminine fausta, neuter faustum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. favorable, fortunate, auspicious, prosperous, lucky

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative faustus fausta faustum faustī faustae fausta
Genitive faustī faustae faustī faustōrum faustārum faustōrum
Dative faustō faustō faustīs
Accusative faustum faustam faustum faustōs faustās fausta
Ablative faustō faustā faustō faustīs
Vocative fauste fausta faustum faustī faustae fausta

Synonyms

Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of “favorable, fortunate”): infaustus

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Italian: fausto
  • Portuguese: fausto
  • Spanish: fausto

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “faveō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 206

Further reading
  • “faustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “faustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • faustus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • faustus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • may heaven's blessing rest on it: quod bonum, faustum, felix, fortunatumque sit! (Div. 1. 45. 102)
    • with favourable omens: faustis ominibus
  • “faustus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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