favilla
Appearance
See also: Favilla
Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- faliva (regional)
Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]favilla f (plural faville)
- spark
- (figurative) glimmer
- ember particle
- (extended) little flame
- (figurative) small amount
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- 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 Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [faˈwɪl.la]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [faˈvil.la]
Noun
[edit]favilla f (genitive favillae); first declension
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | favilla | favillae |
genitive | favillae | favillārum |
dative | favillae | favillīs |
accusative | favillam | favillās |
ablative | favillā | favillīs |
vocative | favilla | favillae |
Descendants
[edit]- Italo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References
[edit]- “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
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