furnace (n.)

early 13c., from Old French fornais "oven, furnace," figuratively "flame of love" (12c.), from Latin fornacem (nominative fornax) "an oven, kiln," related to fornus/furnus "oven," and to formus "warm," from PIE root *gwher- "to heat, warm."

also from early 13c.

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*gwher-

Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to heat, warm."

It forms all or part of: brand; brandish; brandy; brimstone; brindled; forceps; Fornax; fornicate; fornication; fornix; furnace; hypothermia; thermal; thermo-; Thermopylae; Thermos.

It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit gharmah "heat;" Old Persian Garmapada-, name of the fourth month, corresponding to June/July, from garma- "heat;" Hittite war- "to burn;" Armenian jerm "warm;" Greek thermos "warm;" Latin formus "warm," fornax "oven;" Old Irish fogeir "heated;" Old English bærnan "to kindle."

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late 13c., "furnace;" late 14c., "smoke vent of a fireplace, vertical structure raised above a house for smoke to escape...fireplace," from Late Latin (camera) caminata "fireplace; room with a fireplace," from Latin caminatus, adjective of caminus "furnace..., forge; hearth, oven; flue," from Greek kaminos "furnace, oven, brick kiln," which is of uncertain origin....

blast

The sense of "strong current of air forced into a furnace to accelerate combustion for iron-smelting" (1690s) led to blast...furnace (1706) and the transferred American English sense in full blast "to or at the extreme" (1836)....

stoke

1680s, "to feed and stir up" (a fire in a fireplace or furnace), a back-formation from stoker "one who maintains a fire in...a furnace" (1650s); ultimately from Dutch stoken "to stoke," from Middle Dutch stoken "to poke, thrust," related to stoc...

air-space

also airspace, by 1821 in reference to stove and furnace construction, from air (n.1) + space (n.)....

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As the heating apparatus itself (a furnace fitted with a bellows), from late 15c....

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because it was regarded of lesser value than tin and caused a considerable loss of tin during the smelting process in the furnace...

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Burnt sienna is the raw material roasted in a furnace before powdering....

cupola

in architecture, a type of vault or small dome, 1540s, from Italian cupola, from Late Latin cupula "a little tub," diminutive of Latin cupa "cask, barrel" (see cup (n.)). Hence "the rounded top of any structure." The Italian word signifies a hemispherical roof which covers a cir

chamber

c. 1200, "a room in a house," usually a private one, from Old French chambre "room, chamber, apartment" (11c.), from Late Latin camera "a chamber, room" (see camera). The Old French word and the Middle English one also were used alone and in combinations to form words for "latrin

link

early 15c., "one of a series of rings or loops which form a chain; section of a cord," probably from Old Norse *hlenkr or a similar Scandinavian source (compare Old Norse hlekkr "link," in plural, "chain;" Old Swedish lænker "chain, link," Norwegian lenke "a link," Danish lænke "

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