fornacula
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From fornāx (“furnace, oven, kiln”) + -ula (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /forˈnaː.ku.la/, [fɔrˈnäːkʊɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /forˈna.ku.la/, [forˈnäːkulä]
Noun[edit]
fornācula f (genitive fornāculae); first declension
- Diminutive of fornāx: little oven
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | fornācula | fornāculae |
Genitive | fornāculae | fornāculārum |
Dative | fornāculae | fornāculīs |
Accusative | fornāculam | fornāculās |
Ablative | fornāculā | fornāculīs |
Vocative | fornācula | fornāculae |
Descendants[edit]
- Galician: fornalla
- Italian: fornacchia
- Portuguese: fornalha
References[edit]
- “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