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Fornicalia

Fornicalia is the alternative spelling of Fornacalia.

Meaning of Fornacalia

Proper noun

Fornacalia

  1. 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.

Proper noun

Fornicalia

  1. (humorous) California (a state of the United States).

Origin of Fornicalia

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

Questions about Fornicalia

What does Fornicalia mean?
Fornicalia means california (a state of the United States).
What is Fornicalia the alternative spelling of?
Fornicalia is the alternative spelling of Fornacalia.
What part of speech is Fornicalia?
Fornicalia is a proper noun.

Words near Fornicalia in the dictionary

  1. Forney
  2. Forneys
  3. Fornham St Martin
  4. Forni
  5. fornical
  6. Fornicalia
  7. fornicate
  8. fornicate gyri
  9. fornicate gyrus
  10. fornicate gyruses
  11. fornicated

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Fornicalia (page history and authors); Fornacalia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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