noun, masculine/fuʁ.no/plural: fourneaux
stove (cooker); stove (heater); chamber (of a tobacco pipe); beggar, hobo
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.