favellare
Italian
Etymology
From Late Latin fābellārī, a verb based on Latin fābella, the diminutive of fābula (“narrative; story”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa.velˈla.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: fa‧vel‧là‧re
Verb
favellàre (first-person singular present favèllo, first-person singular past historic favellài, past participle favellàto, auxiliary avére)
- (intransitive, literary) to speak, to talk [auxiliary avere]
- Synonym: parlare
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XXXIII, lines 4–6:
- Poi cominciò: «Tu vuo' ch'io rinovelli ¶ disperato dolor che 'l cor mi preme ¶ già pur pensando, pria ch'io ne favelli. […] »
- Then he began: "Thou wilt that I renew the desperate grief, which wrings my heart already to think of only, ere I speak of it"
- (transitive, literary, rare, poetic) to bespeak (to speak about; to tell of)
- Donde ei venga, infelici, il sapete, e sperate che gioia favelli?
- Whence he comes from, o wretches, you know, yet you hope that he bespeaks joy?
Conjugation
Conjugation of favellàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
Noun
favellare m (plural favellari)
Anagrams
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