Italian

Noun

favilla f ‎(plural faville)

1. spark
2. glimmer

Anagrams

• fallavi
• falliva

Latin

Etymology

Likely from Proto-Indo-European *dʰowe-; some have tried to connect it to *dʰegʷʰ- ‎(“to burn”), but its descendants show no trace of a labiovelar.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /faˈwil.la/, [faˈwɪl.la]

Noun

favilla f ‎(genitive favillae); first declension

1. ember, cinder, ash

   Dies irae, dies illa solvet saeclum in favilla‎

   Day of wrath, that day shall dissolve the world in ash

Inflection

First declension.

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “favilla”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

1. ↑ Francis Wood, Post-consonantal W in Indo-European