The story
- Latin · derived fromfaba“bean”
- Proto-Brythonic · derived from*fav
- English todayFaver
* As a French surname, variant of Favre or Lefèvre. Compare Favor. * As an English surname, variant of Feaver. * Also as an English surname, sometimes a nickname based on the noun favor. * Also as an English surname of Breton origin, from the noun fav (“broad bean”), from Proto-Brythonic *fav, from Latin faba (“bean”).
Words from the same roots
Latinfaba all →
fabellafabiform
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.