favellare |
1. v. (intransitive, literary) to or talk | |
2. v. (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? | |
3. n. (archaic) parlance (way of talking) | |
le lingue mescolate e bastarde, che non hanno parole, nè favellari proprii, non sono lingue - the mixed, bastard tongues without their own words and parlances are not languages | |