Fornacalia

English

Alternative forms

• Fornicalia

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Fornācālia.

Proper noun

Fornacalia

1. An ancient Roman festival in honor of the goddess Fornax. Romans burned spelt (a kind of grain) as an offering on or around February 17th as an offering so that their ovens would not burn during the coming year.

Latin

Etymology

fornāx (“oven”) +‎ -ālia, neuter plural of -ālis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /for.naːˈkaː.li.a/, [fɔrnäːˈkäːlʲiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /for.naˈka.li.a/, [fornäˈkäːliä]

Proper noun

Fornācālia n pl (genitive Fornācālium); third declension

1. the festival of the goddess Fornax, namely the baking festival Fornacalia

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), plural only.

	plural
nominative	Fornācālia
genitive	Fornācālium
dative	Fornācālibus
accusative	Fornācālia
ablative	Fornācālibus
vocative	Fornācālia

References

• “Fornacalia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Fornacalia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers