favillare

favillare [LLgl.] 1 (trans.) to reduce to ashes. b (intr.) to turn to ashes. non consuffletur assatus panis ad ignem, / coctana, mala, pira, licet illa favilla favillat D. Bec. 1022; s1272 cetera omnia hostile ~avit incendium Flor. Hist. III 26.  b de pomis Pentapolis, que crescunt et ~ant Gerv. Tilb. III 5 tit.. 2 (intr.) to throw up sparks. b (trans.) to set a spark to. maligni spiritus inter ~antium voraginum atras cavernas discurrentes Felix Guthl. 31; a940 (13c) edacibus ~antium tormentorum flammis CS 640 (cf. ib. 703: 934); ~antium, yslendra GlH F 105; ardensque furore favillat (Vers.) Capgr. Hen. 23.  b ira licet lites vobis alterna favillet D. Bec. 614.