favorabile

Favorabile is an Italian adjective meaning "favorable, advantageous, propitious." It describes something that tends to produce a positive outcome, benefit, or approval. In everyday Italian, the more common form is favorevole, used for people’s attitudes, decisions, or conditions that are favorable.

Favorabile is attested in Italian as a variant form, present in some dictionaries and in older or highly formal texts, and occasionally in regional speech. It derives from Latin favorabilis, via the development of the root favor- plus the suffix -abile, which yields words meaning "able to show favor" or "capable of favoring."

Usage: Favorabile may occur in contexts where a more technical or archaic tone is desired, or where linguistic registers align with Latin-based spelling. In most modern prose, favorevole is preferred for the same sense; both adjectives share the same semantic field.

Relation: In related Romance languages, cognates such as French favorable, Spanish favorable, Portuguese favorável share a similar root and meaning. See also favorevole; favor; Latin: favorabilis.