favillous · adj — of or pertaining to ashes. It carries an Arena rating of 1511, earned across 2 head-to-head judged battles.
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Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, favillous ranks #937 of 17,197 for Best Fossil-Poetry Words, #1,980 of 17,163 for Most Sublime Words, #2,052 of 17,167 for Most Vivid Words, #2,085 of 17,205 for The Improbable.
Why “favillous” is a great word
Of or pertaining to ashes, especially those that glow or spark with latent heat. From the Latin *favilla* ("sparkling or glowing ashes") and the English suffix *-ous*. Unlike "cineritious," which denotes merely the gray hue of cooled ash, or "ashen," which suggests the pallor of lifelessness, *favillous* clings to the substance of fire's remnant in its last vitality. It is the scintillating bed of a dying fire, the spark-cloud rising from a smith's forge, or the soft collapse of a cigarette's tip in an untouched ashtray—a quiet, persistent breath of light refusing full surrender to ash.
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Etymology
From Latin favilla (“sparkling or glowing ashes”) + -ous.
adj
- Of or pertaining to ashes.
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