conflatorium

Latin

Etymology

From cōnflō (“to forge, fuse or melt (metal)”) +‎ -tōrium (noun-forming suffix used to form names of instruments and tools).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kon.flaːˈtoː.ri.um/, [kõːfɫ̪äːˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.flaˈto.ri.um/, [koɱfläˈt̪ɔːrium]

Noun

cōnflātōrium n (genitive cōnflātōriī or cōnflātōrī); second declension

1. furnace (for melting metals)
2. crucible

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnflātōrium	cōnflātōria
Genitive	cōnflātōriī cōnflātōrī1	cōnflātōriōrum
Dative	cōnflātōriō	cōnflātōriīs
Accusative	cōnflātōrium	cōnflātōria
Ablative	cōnflātōriō	cōnflātōriīs
Vocative	cōnflātōrium	cōnflātōria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• cōnflātor

References

• “conflatorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conflatorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.