favorire

Etymology
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Verb

 * 1)  to favour/favor, to help, to aid, to support
 * 2)  to foster, to encourage, to promote, to favour/favor
 * 3)  to give, to pass
 * 4)  please
 * 1)  to give, to pass
 * 2)  please
 * 1)  please

Usage notes

 * The intransitive usage would presumably take as an auxiliary, but in practice never appears in compound tenses.