Baretti: A dictionary of the English and Italian languages
Favéll-a, s. f. Favéll-aménto, Favéll-áre, m.
1. discourse, speech, the faculty of speaking; 2. conversation, discourse. Tener la — ad uno, not to speak to, to be angry with. Render —, to make it up with a person; 3. language, tongue, idiom, dialect. La Latina —, the Latin tongue.