fornax

Alternative forms

• furnāx

Etymology

Related to furnus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfor.naːks/, [ˈfɔr.naːks]

Noun

fornāx f (genitive fornācis); third declension

1. A furnace, oven, kiln.
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon 4.263

     […] aestuat ut clausis rapidus fornacibus ignis

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

   • 29 BCE – 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

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, 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