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Fornax vs Fornicalia - What's the difference?

fornax | fornicalia |

As a noun fornax

is a furnace, oven, kiln.

As a proper noun fornicalia is

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 or fornicalia can be (humorous) california (state of the united states).

fornax

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (constellation) A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a furnace. It lies near the constellation Eridanus.
  • (astronomy) A dwarf galaxy located in the constellation Fornax.
  • (Roman god) The Roman goddess of ovens.

    • Derived terms

    * Fornacis

    fornicalia

    English

    Etymology 1

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • 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.

    • Etymology 2

    Presumably a (soplink) of (California), chosen to resemble (fornication) and to end with (term) (a common word ending found sometimes in geographical names, like (Sedalia), perhaps also chosen because it ends (genitalia) and causes (term) to match that word in meter and rhyme).

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (humorous) California (state of the United States)