conflatorium

Latin

Etymology

From cōnflō (“to forge, fuse or melt (metal)”) +‎ -tōrium (noun-forming suffix used to form names of instruments and tools).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõː.fɫaːˈtoː.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koɱ.flaˈtɔː.ri.um]

Noun

cōnflātōrium n (genitive cōnflātōriī or cōnflātōrī); second declension

1. furnace (for melting metals)
2. crucible

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	cōnflātōrium	cōnflātōria
genitive	cōnflātōriī cōnflātōrī1	cōnflātōriōrum
dative	cōnflātōriō	cōnflātōriīs
accusative	cōnflātōrium	cōnflātōria
ablative	cōnflātōriō	cōnflātōriīs
vocative	cōnflātōrium	cōnflātōria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• cōnflātor

References

• “conflatorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “conflatorium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.