favilla

Italian

Etymology

Directly from Latin favilla.

Noun

favilla f (plural faville)

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

(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

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