fournaise
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French, from Old French fornaise, from the masculine fornais, from Latin fornācem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fournaise f (plural fournaises)
- furnace
- Hypernym: four
- (colloquial, figurative) furnace (extremely hot area)
- Synonym: four
- (literary) blaze, conflagration
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “fournaise” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “fournaise” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “fournaise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French fornaise, from fornais, from Latin fornāx, fornācem.
Noun edit
fournaise f (plural fournaises)
Descendants edit
- French: fournaise