English

Proper noun

Fornax

1. (astronomy) A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a furnace. It lies near the constellation Eridanus.
2. (astronomy) A dwarf galaxy located in the constellation Fornax.
3. (Roman mythology) The Roman goddess of ovens.

Derived terms

• Fornacis

Translations

Spanish

Proper noun

Fornax ?

1. (astronomy) Fornax (constellation)

Latin

Alternative forms

• furnāx

Noun

fornāx f ‎(genitive fornācis); third declension

1. A furnace, oven, kiln.
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon 4.263

     […] aestuat ut clausis rapidus fornacibus ignis

     […] as the rapacious fire blazes in a sealed furnace

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 8.420

     striduntque cauernis / stricturae Chalybum et fornacibus ignis anhelat

     Chalybian ores hiss in the caverns, and from the furnace mouths puff the hot-panting fires

Inflection

Third declension.

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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fornax”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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