forno

See also: Forno

Esperanto

Etymology

From Italian forno, from Latin furnus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈforno/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -orno
• Syllabification: for‧no

Noun

forno (accusative singular fornon, plural fornoj, accusative plural fornojn)

1. oven

   Synonym: bakujo

Galician

Forno

Forno dos Mouros ("oven of the elves") dolmen

Fornos (iron furnaces) of Vilaudriz, A Pontenova, early XXth century

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese forno, from Latin furnus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoɾno̝/

Noun

forno m (plural fornos)

1. oven
2. bakery
3. kiln
   • 1283, “Documentos antiguos de Galicia”, in Margot Sponer, editor, Anuari de l'Oficina Románica de Lingüística i Literatura, Barcelona, 7, p. 25:

     eu, Marinna Johanis, de Lamas, vendo a uoſ, Elvira Pelaez, d'Anſemar va leyra dardade que jaz ao forno do cal alende o rio

     I, Mariña Oanes, from Lama, sell to you, Elvira Pelaez, from Ansemar, a field that lies by the lime kiln, beyond the river

4. furnace
5. (folklore) dolmen

Derived terms

• fornada
• fornalla
• forneiro
• Fornelos
• Forno
• Forno dos Mouros
• forno telleiro
• Fornos

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “forno”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “forno”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “forno”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “forno”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “forno”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Etymology

From Latin furnus, from Proto-Italic *fornos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰr̥-nós, from *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfor.no/
• Rhymes: -orno
• Hyphenation: fór‧no

• Audio:

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Noun

forno m (plural forni)

1. oven

   Il pane è nel forno. ― The bread is in the oven.

2. bakery

Related terms

• fornace
• fornaio
• fornello
• forno a microonde
• infornare
• sfornare

Anagrams

• ronfo, ronfò

Latin

Noun

fornō

1. dative/ablative singular of fornus

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin furnus (“oven; bakery”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoɾ.no/

Noun

forno m (plural fornos)

1. furnace
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 4 (facsimile):

     Eſta e como Santa maria guardou ao fillo do judeu que non ardeſſe que ſeu padre deitara no forno.

     This one is (about) how Holy Mary protected from being burnt the son of the Jew whose father had lain him in the furnace.

Descendants

• Fala: fornu, folnu
• Galician: forno
• Portuguese: forno
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: furnu
  • → Malayalam: ബോർമ്മ (bōṟmma)
  • → Sinhalese: පෝරණය (pōraṇaya), පෝර්ණුව (pōrṇuwa)

Old Leonese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin furnus (“oven; bakery”).

Noun

forno m

1. oven
   • 1085, Fuero de Avilés‎^[1]:

     De kasa homo morar' é fogo fezer, dará I sólido de fornage; é faza forno qui quiser.

     (For a) man to live in a house and make fire, he'll give I solidus of oven tax; and let him make whichever oven he may want.

   • 1295, Carta Puebla de Oviedo‎^[2]:

     omme morar et ffuego fizier dara vno solido de fornaje et faga forno ubi quesierit.

     (for a) man to live and make fire, he'll give one solidus of oven tax and let him make (an) oven where he may want.

   • 1296, Fuero de Çamora‎^[3]:

     Por feridas e por denuestos en acenia o a forno o ario, firme con mugieres.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Related terms

• fornaje

Descendants

• Asturian: fornu
• Mirandese: forno

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese forno, from Latin furnus, from Proto-Italic *fornos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰr̥-nós, from *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʁ.nu/ [ˈfoɦ.nu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʁ.nu/ [ˈfoɦ.nu]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈfoɾ.nu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʁ.nu/
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˈfoɻ.nu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʁ.no/ [ˈfoɦ.no]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfoɾ.nu/

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: for‧no

Noun

forno m (plural fornos, metaphonic)

1. oven

Derived terms

• alto-forno
• fornalha
• forno microondas

Descendants

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: furnu
• → Malayalam: ബോർമ്മ (bōṟmma)
• → Sinhalese: පෝරණය (pōraṇaya), පෝර්ණුව (pōrṇuwa)

Further reading

• “forno”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “forno”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoɾno/ [ˈfoɾ.no]
• Rhymes: -oɾno
• Syllabification: for‧no

Noun

forno m (plural fornos)

1. archaic form of horno

Further reading

• “forno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025