hornito

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noun

A low, oven-shaped mound, common in volcanic regions, emitting smoke and vapours from its sides and summit.

OriginSpanish horno ← Latin furnus →
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Meanings

nounhornito (plural hornitos or hornitoes)

plural hornitos · plural hornitoes

  1. geographyA low, oven-shaped mound, common in volcanic regions, emitting smoke and vapours from its sides and summit.

    When Humboldt visited this place, the natives assured him that the heat of the hornitos had formerly been much greater. The thermometer rose to 203° when placed in the fissures exhaling aqueous vapour.

    1832, The travels and researches of Alexander von Humboldt

Origin

  1. Latinfurnus
  2. Spanishhorno“oven”
  3. Englishhornito

Diminutive from Spanish horno (“oven”), from Latin furnus. See furnace.

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