Noun: hornito
| Singular | hornito |
| Plural | hornitos; hornitoes |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
Nouns inflected like hornito
great go,
great-go,
senhor,
afrancesado,
sprite halo,
shacko,
commando,
villiaco,
magic Negro,
Phnom Laang bent-toed gecko,
chacmool,
yerbal,
depressor,
bombolo,
bolivar,
bolívar,
buccinator,
boratto,
botargo,
slashed zero, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Diminutive from Spanish horno (“oven”), from Latin furnus. See furnace. See: Spanish Nouns '
horno', Latin Nouns '
furnus'.