fornacula

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Latin

Etymology

From fornāx (“furnace, oven, kiln”) +‎ -ula (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

fornācula f (genitive fornāculae); first declension

  1. diminutive of fornāx: little oven

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative fornācula fornāculae
genitive fornāculae fornāculārum
dative fornāculae fornāculīs
accusative fornāculam fornāculās
ablative fornāculā fornāculīs
vocative fornācula fornāculae

Descendants

  • Galician: fornalla
  • Italian: fornacchia
  • Portuguese: fornalha

References

  • “fornacula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fornacula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fornacula 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)
  • fornacula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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