fornax

See also: Fornax

Latin

Alternative forms

• furnāx

Etymology

Related to furnus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfor.naːks/, [ˈfɔrnäːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfor.naks/, [ˈfɔrnäks]

Noun

fornāx f (genitive fornācis); third declension

1. a furnace, oven, kiln
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 4.263:

     […] aestuat ut clausīs rapidus fornācibus ignis

     […] as the rapacious fire blazes in a sealed furnace

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 8.420:

     […] strīduntque cavernīs / strictūrae Chalybum et fornācibus ignis anhēlat

     Chalybian ores hiss in the caverns, and from the furnace mouths puff the hot-panting fires

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fornāx	fornācēs
genitive	fornācis	fornācum
dative	fornācī	fornācibus
accusative	fornācem	fornācēs
ablative	fornāce	fornācibus
vocative	fornāx	fornācēs

Synonyms

• (oven): furnus

Derived terms

• fornācālis
• fornācārius
• fornācātor
• fornāceus
• fornācula

Related terms

• furnus

Descendants

• Catalan: fornal
• Italian: fornace
• Old Spanish: fornaz, fornace
  • Spanish: hornaza
• >? Spanish: hornacho
• Old French: fornais, fornaise
  • French: fournaise
  • → English: furnace
  • → Irish: foirnéis
  • → Manx: furnish
  • → Scottish Gaelic: fòirneis
  • → Welsh: ffwrnais
• Sicilian: furnaci

References

• “fornax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fornax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fornax 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)
• fornax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “fornax”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fornax”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “fornax”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin