favilla

See also: Favilla

Italian

Alternative forms

• faliva (regional)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin favilla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faˈvil.la/
• Rhymes: -illa
• Hyphenation: fa‧vìl‧la

Noun

favilla f (plural faville)

1. spark
2. (figurative) glimmer
3. ember particle
4. (extended) little flame
5. (figurative) small amount

Derived terms

• falavesca
• favalena
• favillare
• favilletta
• favillina
• favilluccia
• favilluzza
• folena
• sfavillare

References

• favilla in internazionale.it – Dizionario Italiano di Internazionale – Il Nuovo di Mauro
• Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907), “favilla”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
• “favilla”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Anagrams

• Favalli, 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.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [faˈwɪl.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [faˈvil.la]

Noun

favilla f (genitive favillae); first declension

1. ember, cinder, glowing ash
   • From the Dies irae sequence (stanza 18) of the Catholic Requiem mass:

     Lacrimosa dies illa,
     Qua resurget ex favilla,
     Iudicandus homo reus.
     Huic ergo parce, Deus.

     Tearful [will be] that day,
     on which from the glowing embers will arise
     the guilty man who is to be judged.
     Then spare him, O God.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	favilla	favillae
genitive	favillae	favillārum
dative	favillae	favillīs
accusative	favillam	favillās
ablative	favillā	favillīs
vocative	favilla	favillae

Derived terms

• favillāceus
• favillāticus
• favillēscō
• favillō
• favillula

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: favilla, faliva (regional)
  • Sicilian: faviḍḍa, faiḍḍa
    • → Italian: Failla (surname)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Galician: feila, ⇒ foula (crossed with faluppa)

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.