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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *fornos, from earlier xʷornos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰr̥-nós, from *gʷʰer- (warm, hot).[1] Cognate with Old Irish gorn, Proto-Slavic *gъrnъ, Albanian zjarr, Old Armenian ջերմ (ǰerm). Related to formus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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furnus m (genitive furnī); second declension

  1. oven
  2. bakery

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

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References

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  • furnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • furnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • furnus 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)
  • furnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • furnus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • furnus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fornus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 235