Alternative forms

• faliva (regional)

Etymology

Inherited from LatinCategory:Italian terms inherited from Latin#FAVILLACategory:Italian terms derived from Latin#FAVILLA favilla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faˈvil.la/Category:Italian 3-syllable words#FAVILLACategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#FAVILLA
• Rhymes: -illaCategory:Rhymes:Italian/illa#FAVILLACategory:Rhymes:Italian/illa/3 syllables#FAVILLA
• Hyphenation: fa‧vìl‧la

Noun

favilla f (plural faville)Category:Italian lemmas#FAVILLACategory:Italian nouns#FAVILLACategory:Italian countable nouns#FAVILLACategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#FAVILLACategory:Italian feminine nouns#FAVILLACategory:Pages with entries#FAVILLACategory:Pages with 2 entries#FAVILLA

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

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 Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• Favalli, fallavi, falliva

Etymology

Likely from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#FAVILLA *dʰewh₂- (“smoke”); some have tried to connect it to *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”), but its descendants show no trace of a labiovelar.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [faˈwɪl.la]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#FAVILLACategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#FAVILLA
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [faˈvil.la]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#FAVILLACategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#FAVILLA

Noun

favilla f (genitive favillae)Category:Latin lemmas#FAVILLACategory:Latin nouns#FAVILLACategory:Latin first declension nouns#FAVILLACategory:Latin feminine nouns in the first declension#FAVILLACategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#FAVILLACategory:Latin feminine nouns#FAVILLACategory:Pages with entries#FAVILLACategory:Pages with 2 entries#FAVILLA; 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.

     Category:Latin terms with quotations#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.