Forge
/fɔːrdʒ/noun
A workshop or furnace for heating and shaping metal; also to make or shape something by heating and hammering, or to make something falsely.
Did you know?The word ultimately comes from Latin *fabrica* (“workshop, craft”), tied to the same root that gave English words for making and building, so a forge is literally a place of making.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*dhabh-
“to fit together, join”
Latin
Latin
faber
“craftsman, workman”
Latin
Latin
fabrica
“workshop, craft, manufacture”
Old French
OF
forge
“smithy, workshop for metalworking”
Middle English
English
forge
“smith’s workshop; to work metal by heating and hammering”
Modern English
English
forge
“a metalworking workshop; to shape by heat and hammering; to counterfeit or devise”