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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2007-03-19 07:16 am

favonian

favonian - adj., of or relating to the west wind; mild, benign.


Southern Arizona locals get to laugh at the association. (Our hot, dry prevailing summer wind -- "dragon weather" -- is out of the west/northwest.) From Latin Favonius, the personification of the west wind, from favere, to favor, with possible influence from fovere, to warm.

---L.