Noun: fourneau
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | fourneau |
| Plural m | fourneaux |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like fourneau
renouveau,
pocheteau,
berceau,
métamatériau,
ypréau,
ypreau,
chaudeau,
lanterneau,
lapineau,
bordeau,
lapereau,
bouleau,
paonneau,
bandeau,
barreau,
bardeau,
barbeau,
zoziau,
mâtineau,
colineau, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French fourneau, from Old French fornel, a diminutive of Old French forn (“oven”) (Modern French four) with suffix -eau, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *furnellus, from Latin furnus. Compare Italian fornello, Occitan fornèl, Catalan fornell, Spanish hornillo, Walloon fornea, etc. See: French Nouns '
four', Latin Nouns '
furnus', Italian Nouns '
fornello', Catalan Nouns '
fornell', Spanish Nouns '
hornillo'.
Verbs referencing "fourneau"
Italian Nouns
fornello, English Nouns
fornacite, Spanish Nouns
hornillo, Romanian Nouns
furnal.
Translations