fornacula

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

fornācula f (genitive fornāculae); first declension

  1. 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