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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin favilla.
Noun
favilla f (plural faville)
- spark
- glimmer
Anagrams
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
Noun
favilla f (genitive favillae); first declension
- 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 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.
Descendants
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