English
favillous
Favillous comes from Latin favilla ‘sparkling or glowing ashes’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfavilla‘sparkling or glowing ashes’
- Englishearliest quotation 1650favillous
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfavilla‘sparkling or glowing ashes’
- Englishearliest quotation 1650favillous
Earliest quotation: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […]: “But of lower consideration is the common foretelling of…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- ‘smoke’
down, steam, dye, funk, dew, dun, dune, duvet, dag, fume, thymus, fumigation, typhon, obfuscate, 26 more
Today it means
adj Of or pertaining to ashes.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin favilla / favillous