A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Furnace, oven, kiln:

Fornax,-acis (s.f.III), abl. sg. fornace, nom. & acc. pl. fornaces; also furnax,-acis (s.f.III): a furnace, oven, kiln.

Carbonaria,-ae (s.f.I; sc. fornax,-acis (s.f.III): a furnace, oven or kiln for making charcoal.

Calcaria,-ae (s.f.I), a lime-quarry; a lime-kiln or lime-works (Glare); [lime-kiln (Eng. noun): “a kiln or furnace for reducing limestone or shells to lime by burning” (WIII); see lime].

Clibanus,-i (s.m.II), abl.sg. clibano: “an earthen or iron vessel for baking bread, broader at the bottom than at the top; an oven or furnace” (Lewis & Short) = Gk. klibanos.

Fornacula,-ae (s.f.I), abl. sg. fornaculo: a furnace [> L. dim. fornax,-acis (s.f.III).

Fornax balinei (gen.sg. balineum,-ei (s.n.II) a bath or bathroom): a furnace for heating baths.

Fornax,-acis (s.f.III), “the goddess that presided over ovens, the oven-goddess, for whom Numa is said to have instituted an especial festival” (Lewis & Short); “an alleged goddess of ovens (probably a mere inference from the Fornacalia),” the oven or baking festival of Rome (Glare).

Furnus (fornus),-i (s.m.II), abl.sg. furno: an oven; “Used by the Romans as a warming-place (Lewis & Short).

Hypocausis,-is (s.f.III), abl. sg. hypocause: a furnace that heats from below; “the furnace for heating a hypocaust” (Glare); see hypocaustum,-i (s.n.II); see fornax,-acis (s.f.III).