favilla
Italian
Etymology
Directly from Latin favilla.
Noun
favilla f (plural faville)
- spark
- glimmer
Anagrams
- fallavi
- falliva
Latin
Etymology
Likely from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“smoke”); some have tried to connect it to *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”), but its descendants show no trace of a labiovelar.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /faˈwiːl.la/
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /faˈvil.la/
Noun
favīlla f (genitive favīllae); first declension
- ember, cinder, ash
- Dies irae, dies illa solvet saeclum in favilla
- Day of wrath, that day shall dissolve the world in ash
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | favīlla | favīllae |
| Genitive | favīllae | favīllārum |
| Dative | favīllae | favīllīs |
| Accusative | favīllam | favīllās |
| Ablative | favīllā | favīllīs |
| Vocative | favīlla | favīllae |
Descendants
- Old Portuguese: [Term?]
- Galician: feila
- ⇒ Galician: foula (crossed with faluppa)
- → Italian: favilla
References
- favilla in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- favilla in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- favilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Francis Wood, Post-consonantal W in Indo-European