favellare

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Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin fābellārī, a verb based on Latin fābella, the diminutive of fābula (“narrative; story”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fa.velˈla.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: fa‧vel‧là‧re

Verb

favellàre (first-person singular present favèllo, first-person singular past historic favellài, past participle favellàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (intransitive, literary) to speak, to talk
    Synonym: parlare
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XXXIII, lines 4–6:
      Poi cominciò: «Tu vuo' ch'io rinovelli ¶ disperato dolor che 'l cor mi preme ¶ già pur pensando, pria ch'io ne favelli. […] »
      Then he began: "Thou wilt that I renew the desperate grief, which wrings my heart already to think of only, ere I speak of it"
  2. (transitive, literary, rare, poetic) to bespeak (to speak about; to tell of)
    • Donde ei venga, infelici, il sapete, e sperate che gioia favelli?
      Whence he comes from, o wretches, you know, yet you hope that he bespeaks joy?

Conjugation

    Conjugation of favellàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive favellàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund favellàndo
present participle favellànte past participle favellàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present favèllo favèlli favèlla favelliàmo favellàte favèllano
imperfect favellàvo favellàvi favellàva favellavàmo favellavàte favellàvano
past historic favellài favellàsti favellò favellàmmo favellàste favellàrono
future favellerò favellerài favellerà favellerémo favelleréte favellerànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present favellerèi favellerésti favellerèbbe, favellerébbe favellerémmo favelleréste favellerèbbero, favellerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present favèlli favèlli favèlli favelliàmo favelliàte favèllino
imperfect favellàssi favellàssi favellàsse favellàssimo favellàste favellàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
favèlla favèlli favelliàmo favellàte favèllino
negative imperative non favellàre non favèlli non favelliàmo non favellàte non favèllino

Derived terms

Noun

favellare m (plural favellari)

  1. (archaic) parlance (way of talking)
    Synonyms: (archaic) favella, parlata
    • le lingue mescolate e bastarde, che non hanno parole, nè favellari proprii, non sono lingue
      the mixed, bastard tongues without their own words and parlances are not languages

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