fornacula
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From fornāx (“furnace, oven, kiln”) + -ula (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /forˈnaː.ku.la/, [fɔrˈnäːkʊɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /forˈna.ku.la/, [forˈnäːkulä]
Noun
[edit]fornācula f (genitive fornāculae); first declension
- diminutive of fornāx: little oven
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fornācula | fornāculae |
| genitive | fornāculae | fornāculārum |
| dative | fornāculae | fornāculīs |
| accusative | fornāculam | fornāculās |
| ablative | fornāculā | fornāculīs |
| vocative | fornācula | fornāculae |
Descendants
[edit]- Galician: fornalla
- Italian: fornacchia
- Portuguese: fornalha
References
[edit]- “fornacula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fornacula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "fornacula", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- fornacula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.