English
fautrix
Fautrix comes from Latin fautrīx ‘patroness, protectress’, and goes back to faveō ‘to be favorable’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfaveō1‘to be favorable’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfautrīx2‘patroness, protectress’
- Englishtodayfautrix2
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Latin fautrix
- 2 Wiktionary, English fautrix
Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfaveōWiktionary, Latin fautrix‘to be favorable’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfautrīxWiktionary, English fautrix‘patroness, protectress’
- EnglishtodayfautrixWiktionary, English fautrix
Equivalent to fautor + -trix
Latin faveo ‘to be favorable, to be well disposed or…’
Latin fautor ‘promoter, supporter’
English fautor
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- ‘to be, become’
be, been, power, possible, present, future, build, physical, improve, presence, essential, bond, bush, bound, absence, physician, entity, booth, approve, probability, absent, contribution, favorable, fiat, bun, bouquet, distribute, contributor, imp, rebuke, impotent, impossibility, bower, retribution, attribution, aren, beamer, bosque, phylogeny, physic, 83 more
through Latin faveō ‘to be favorable’
Today it means
noun A patroness.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “fautrix”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin fautrix. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / Latin faveō / fautrix