favilla

• faliva (regional)

Inherited from Latin favilla.

favilla f (plural faville)

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

• 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

• Favalli, fallavi, falliva

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]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [faˈwɪl.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [faˈvil.la]

favilla f (genitive favillae); 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.

First-declension noun.

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: favilla, faliva (regional)
  • Sicilian: faviḍḍa, faiḍḍa
    • → Italian: Failla (surname)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Galician: feila, ⇒ foula (crossed with faluppa)

• “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.