fornax
See also: Fornax
Latin
Alternative forms
- furnāx
Etymology
Related to furnus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfor.naːks/, [ˈfɔrnäːks̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfor.naks/, [ˈfɔrnäks]
Noun
fornāx f (genitive fornācis); third declension
- a furnace, oven, kiln
- c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon 4.263:
- […] aestuat ut clausīs rapidus fornācibus ignis
- […] as the rapacious fire blazes in a sealed furnace
- […] aestuat ut clausīs rapidus fornācibus ignis
- 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
- […] strīduntque cavernīs / strictūrae Chalybum et fornācibus ignis anhēlat
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | 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
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 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