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”). Compare iūstus, honestus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfau̯s.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfau̯s.tus] === Adjective === faustus (feminine fausta, neuter faustum); first/second-declension adjective favorable, fortunate, auspicious, prosperous, lucky ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Synonyms ==== (favorable, fortunate): albus, auspicābilis, benignus, fēlīx, laetus, prosperus, secundus ==== Antonyms ==== (antonym(s) of “favorable, fortunate”): infaustus ==== Derived terms ==== faustitās faustē Faustus ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Italian: fausto Portuguese: fausto Spanish: fausto === References === === 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, 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “faustus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray