furnus

Latin

Alternative forms

fornus

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fornos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰr̥-nós, from *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”).[1] Cognate with Old Irish gorn, Proto-Slavic *gъrnъ, Albanian zjarr, Old Armenian ջերմ (ǰerm). Related to formus.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfur.nus/, [ˈfʊrnʊs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfur.nus/, [ˈfurnus]

Noun

furnus m (genitive furnī); second declension

oven
bakery

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	furnus	furnī
Genitive	furnī	furnōrum
Dative	furnō	furnīs
Accusative	furnum	furnōs
Ablative	furnō	furnīs
Vocative	furne	furnī

Related terms

fornax
fornix (probably)

Descendants

Corsican: fornu, forru, furru
Dalmatian: forno
Istriot: furno
Italian: forno
Eastern Romance:
- Aromanian: furnu, fur, furu, furnã
Emilian: fåuren
Extremaduran: fornu
Franco-Provençal: forn
Lombard: fòrn
Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: forno
Neapolitan: furno
Old French: forn
- French: four
- Norman: fou, four
- Walloon: for
Old Leonese:
- Asturian: fornu, forno, furnu, ḥornu
- Mirandese: forno
Old Occitan: forn
- Occitan: forn
Old Portuguese: forno
- Fala: fornu
- Galician: forno
- Portuguese: forno
  - Guinea-Bissau Creole: furnu
Old Spanish: forno
- Spanish: horno, forno
  - → Cebuano: orno
  - → Tagalog: horno
Piedmontese: furn
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: fôr
- Ladin: forn
- Romansch: furn, fuorn
Sardinian: forru, furru
Sicilian: furnu
→ Albanian: furrë
→ Ancient Greek: φοῦρνος (phoûrnos)
- Greek: φούρνος (foúrnos)
  - → Turkish: fırın
- → Aramaic:
  Hebrew: פורנא‎ (fūrnāʾ)
  Syriac: ܦܘܪܢܐ‎ (fūrnāʾ)
  - → Arabic: فرن‎ (furn)
    - Hijazi Arabic: فرن‎ (furun)
    - Maltese: forn
    - Turkish: fırın
- → Old Armenian: փուռն (pʿuṙn)
  - Armenian: փուռ (pʿuṙ)
- ⇒ Byzantine Greek: φουρνίν (phournín)
  - Pontic Greek: φουρνίν (fournín), φουρνί (fourní)
    - → Laz: ჶურნი (furni), ჶუნნი (funni)
→ Bulgarian: фурна (furna)
→ Cornish: forn
→ Dutch: fornuis
→ Georgian: ფურნე (purne)
- → Mingrelian: ფურნე (purne)
→ Kabyle: ufarnu
→ Macedonian: фурна (furna)
→ Old Irish: sorn, sornn
- Irish: sorn
- Manx: sorn
- Scottish Gaelic: sòrn
- → Faroese: sornur
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: sonn
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: фуруна
Latin: furuna
→ Welsh: ffwrn
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *furnellus
- Italian: fornello
- Old French:
  - French: fourneau
- Old Occitan:
  - Catalan: fornell
  - Occitan: fornèl
- Old Portuguese:
  - Portuguese: forninho
- Old Spanish:
  - Spanish: hornillo
- Rhaeto-Romance:
  - Romansch: furnel
- Sardinian: forredhu, furredhu
- Sicilian: furneḍḍu

References

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

De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “fornus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 235

[De_Vaan_2008-fornus-1] De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “fornus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 235