fournaise

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French fornaise, from the masculine fornais, from Latin fornācem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fuʁ.nɛz/

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• Rhymes: -ɛz

Noun

fournaise f (plural fournaises)

1. furnace

   Hypernym: four

2. (colloquial, figurative) furnace (extremely hot area)

   Synonym: four

3. (literary) blaze, conflagration

   Synonym: brasier

Related terms

• fourneau

Further reading

• “fournaise”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse
• Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “fournaise”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette
• “fournaise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• enfouiras, ensoufrai

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French fornaise, from fornais, from Latin fornāx, fornācem.

Noun

fournaise f (plural fournaises)

1. furnace

Descendants

• French: fournaise