The story
- Latin · derived fromfavus“honeycomb”
- English todayfavaginous
Obscure formation from Latin favus (“honeycomb”). Compare deluginous (where the -in- is also unexpected); most -ginous terms derive from Latin words ending in g being suffixed with -īnus (“-inous”).
Words from the same roots
Latinfavus all →
favus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.