The corpus record — Latin

fornacula

fornacula · f

a little furnace

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Where it lives

Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

fornācŭla — Lewis & Short

fornācŭla, ae, f.dim.id.,

I a little furnace or oven.

I Lit., Juv. 10, 82; Vitr. 7, 10, 1; Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 1, 2 ed. Mai. —*

II Trop., a kindler, exciter: hic totius calumniae fornacula, App. Mag. p. 321, 32.

In the wild

fornacula Juvenal, Saturae 4.10.82
fornacula Vitruvius, De Architectura 7.10.2
fornacula Apuleius, Apologia 74.p2

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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