Fornace
/fɔrˈna.tʃe/noun
A furnace or kiln, especially for heating, baking, or smelting.
Did you know?Italian *fornace* descends from Latin *fornax*, a furnace or oven, from the same Indo-European root that also gave English *oven*, so the language of fire has been linked to transformation for thousands of years.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*gwher-
“to heat, warm”
Latin
Latin
fornax
“a furnace, oven, kiln”
Late Latin
Latin
fornacem
“furnace, oven (accusative form used in later Romance development)”
Old Italian
Italian
fornace
“furnace, kiln”
Modern English
English
fornace
“a furnace or kiln (loanword, regional/technical use)”