fitilla

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold”), the same root of fingō (“I shape, form”).^[1] Perhaps from Proto-Italic *fig-klā-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰigʰ-tla-, from *dʰeyǵʰ-.

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

fitilla f (genitive fitillae); first declension

1. A bowl used in sacrifices

The term may have been a dialectal form of *fictilla.

First-declension noun.

• “fitilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fitilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• Brent Vine (1986) “An Umbrian-Latin Correspondence”, in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 90, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 111–127