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Learn Hardcore Latin: fornax - the furnace

Hardcore Latin
/Repairing a bathhouse hypocaust
/fornax

fornax

Word

fornax

Meaning

the furnace

Part of speech

noun

Pronunciation

Course

Lesson

Repairing a bathhouse hypocaust

Usages of fornax

Praefurnium prope fornacem est.

The furnace opening is near the furnace.

Sive aeneum sive fornax fumum mittit, balneator intrat.

Whether the bronze boiler or the furnace emits smoke, the keeper enters.

Fornax aeneum calefacit.

The furnace heats the bronze boiler.

Tantum abest ut fornax frigida sit, ut aeneum iam calefaciat.

The furnace is so far from being cold that it is already heating the bronze boiler.

Fornax testacea est.

The furnace is made of brick or tile.

Utinam cantharus in fornace non frangatur!

If only the two-handled drinking cup does not break in the furnace!

Urceum et hydriam prope fornacem testaceam ponit ne frangantur neve cadant.

He places the water pitcher and the water jar near the brick furnace so that neither breaks nor falls.

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