fornax

See also Fornax

Latin

Alternative forms

• furnāx

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈfor.naːks/

Noun

fornāx (genitive fornācis); f, third declension

1. A furnace, oven, kiln.
   • 29 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon, liber IV: 263

     […] aestuat ut clausis rapidus fornacibus ignis

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

   • 29-19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid, 8.420

     striduntque cauernis / stricturae Chalybum et fornacibus ignis anhelat

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

Inflection

Number	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

• English: furnace
• French: fournaise
• Italian: fornace

• Old French: fornais
• Sicilian: furneddu
• Spanish: hornacho
• Welsh: ffwrnais