different between furnace vs fornax

English

Etymology

From Middle English forneys, from Old French fornais (French fournaise), from Latin forn?x.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?n?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??n?s/

Noun

furnace (plural furnaces)

1. (Britain) An industrial heating device, e.g. for smelting metal or baking ceramics.
2. (US, Canada) A device that provides heat for a building; a space heater.
3. (colloquial) Any area that is excessively hot.
4. (figuratively) A place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
   • c. 1530, William Tyndale, Tyndale Bible, Deuteronomy 4:20:

     For the Lorde toke you and broughte you out of the yernen fornace of Egipte, to be vnto him a people of enheritaunce, as it is come to passe this daye.

Derived terms

• furnacey

Translations

Verb

furnace (third-person singular simple present furnaces, present participle furnacing, simple past and past participle furnaced)

1. To heat in a furnace.
2. To exhale like a furnace.

Anagrams

• Fraunce

Latin

Alternative forms

• furn?x

Etymology

Related to furnus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?for.na?ks/, [?f?rnä?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?for.naks/, [?f?rn?ks]

Noun

forn?x f (genitive forn?cis); third declension

1. a furnace, oven, kiln

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (oven): furnus

Derived terms

Related terms

• furnus

Descendants

References

• fornax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fornax in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fornax in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fornax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• fornax in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fornax in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• fornax in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin