favor

• vt.好意を寄せる；好む；気に入る；与える；確認する
• n.好む；喜ぶ；好意を持つ

ラテン語のfavere「好意を抱く」、PIE*ghow「尊敬する」「崇拝する」が語源で、語源的にはgazeと同じ。ローマ時代の学者キケロは、この語の意味を親愛、親しみ、好みへと弱めた。

favor (n.)

c. 1300, "attractiveness, beauty, charm" (archaic), from Old French favor "a favor; approval, praise; applause; partiality" (13c., Modern French faveur), from Latin favorem (nominative favor) "good will, inclination, partiality, support," coined by Cicero from stem of favere "to show kindness to," from PIE *ghow-e- "to honor, revere, worship" (cognate: Old Norse ga "to heed").

Meaning "good will, kind regard" is from mid-14c. in English; sense of "act of kindness, a kindness done" is from late 14c. Meaning "bias, partiality" is from late 14c. Meaning "thing given as a mark of favor" is from late 15c. Phrase in favor of recorded from 1560s.

favor (v.)

mid-14c., "to regard with favor, indulge, treat with partiality," from Old French favorer, from favor "a favor, partiality" (see favor (n.)). Meaning "to resemble, look somewhat like" is from c. 1600. Related: Favored; favoring.

1. Recent opinion polls show that 60 percent favor abortion under certain circumstances.

最近の世論調査では、場合によっては中絶できることに賛成している人が60%に達した。

2.Safire writes hilariously of being banished from presidential favor .

サフィールは、大統領の好感を得ることができなかったことをユーモアたっぷりに描いた。

3.Good old Bergen would do him the favor .

気立てのいいおじさんの根が助けてくれます。

4.The margin in favor was 280-to-153.

賛成票は280票で153票を上回った。

5.The jury voted 8-to-4 in favor of acquittal.

陪審員団は8対4の投票結果で無罪判決に賛成した。