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Faventia2

Faventia2 · f

a being favorable

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Where it lives

Helius 1 · 6.97/10k
Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

1. făventĭa — Lewis & Short

făventĭa, ae, f.id.,

I a being favorable, i. e. keeping silence at religious ceremonies: faventiam bonam ominationem significat. Nam praecones clamantes populum sacrificiis favere jubebant, etc., Paul. ex Fest. p. 88, 6 Müll.: augustam adhibebant faventiam, Att. ap. Non. 206, 2; (ore obsceno dicta segregent, Non.), Cypr. Ep. 2, 4.

2. Făventĭa — Lewis & Short

Făventĭa, ae, f.,

I a city of Gallia Cisalpina, which produced excellent linen cloth, now Faënza, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 7; Liv. Epit. 88; Vell. 2, 28, 1; Sil. 8, 598.—

II Deriv.

A Făventīnus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Faventia, Faventine: ager, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 7; Col. 3, 3, 2: lina, Plin. 19, 1, 2, § 9.—

B Făventīni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Faventia, Plin. 3, 15, 20, § 116.

In the wild

Faventiam Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae val2.11.52
Faventia Historia Augusta, Verus 1.p2
Faventia Historia Augusta, Helius 2
Faventia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.1.p7
Fauentia Silius Italicus, Punica 8.596
Faventiae Historia Augusta, De vita Hadriani 7

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. fauentia (scan p. 245; entry #3785).

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