Fornacalia

== English == === Alternative forms === Fornicalia === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin Fornācālia. === Proper noun === Fornacalia An ancient Roman festival in honor of the goddess Fornax. Romans burned spelt (a kind of grain) as an offering on or around February 17th as an offering so that their ovens would not burn during the coming year. == Latin == === Etymology === fornāx (“oven”) +‎ -ālia, neuter plural of -ālis. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fɔr.naːˈkaː.li.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [for.naˈkaː.li.a] === Proper noun === Fornācālia n pl (genitive Fornācālium); third declension the festival of the goddess Fornax, namely the baking festival Fornacalia ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem), plural only. === References === “Fornacalia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Fornacalia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers