English → Latin
“furnace” in Latin
fornāxa furnace, oven, kilndolorpain, ache, hurt; anguish, grief, sorrow; indignation, resentment, anger, fury, vengeancepūrgōto clean, cleanse, clear, purge, purify; to exculpate, justify, vindicate, clear someone's name; to expiate, lustrate
The English word furnace itself goes back to Latin furnus, through fornāx.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
furnace
fornax (to which the adjective may be added, to denote what it is used for; e.g., Plin., 17, 19, 6, calcaria fornax).
IMPROPR., The furnace of affliction, (quasi) faces doloris or dolorum (Cic.). Anybody is tried in the furnace of affliction, *alicujus pectus dolorum quasi facibus admotis exploratur or purgatur, or *alicujus scelus dolorum quasi igne exuritur (after Verg., Aen., 6, 742).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for furnace?
- The usual Latin words for “furnace” are fornāx, dolor, pūrgō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.