Tuesday word: Favonian

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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Favonian (adjective)
favonian [fuh-voh-nee-uhn]

adjective
1. of or relating to the west wind.
2. mild or favorable; propitious.

Origin: 1650–60; < Latin Favōniānus. See Favonius, -an. foehn

Example Sentences
Favonian, fav-ō′ni-an, adj. pertaining to the west wind, favourable.
From Project Gutenberg

Such soft favonian airs upon a flute, Such shadowy censers burning live perfume, Shall lead the mystic city to her tomb; Nor flowerless springs, nor autumns without fruit, Nor summer mornings when the winds are mute, Trouble her soul till Rome be no more Rome.
From Project Gutenberg

Soft spring, with breath Favonian, from warm chambers of the south, Recalls the first.”
From Project Gutenberg

See, the summer gay, 680 With her green chaplet, and ambrosial flowers, Droops into pallid autumn: winter grey, Horrid with frost, and turbulent with storm, Blows autumn, and his golden fruits, away: Then melts into the spring: soft spring, with breath Favonian, from warm chambers of the south, Recalls the first.
From Project Gutenberg

The wind blew free that morn that we, High-hearted, sailed away; Bound for Favonian islands blest, Remote within the utmost West, Beyond the golden day.
From Project Gutenberg