fournaise
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French, from Old French fornaise, from the masculine fornais, from Latin fornācem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fuʁ.nɛz/
Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)): (file) Audio (France (Toulouse)): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛz
Noun
fournaise f (plural fournaises)
- furnace
- Hypernym: four
- (colloquial, figurative) furnace (extremely hot area)
- Synonym: four
- (literary) blaze, conflagration
Related terms
Further reading
- “fournaise”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse
- Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “fournaise”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette
- “fournaise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Anagrams
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French fornaise, from fornais, from Latin fornāx, fornācem.
Noun
fournaise f (plural fournaises)
Descendants
- French: fournaise