Camîno, camínas, pen. prod. caminâre, Plin. To make like chimney or furneyse.
Caminus, camini. pen. prod. Virg.A chimney: a sutneyse.Lentis caminis dare vilcera. Sen. To rost at a sost fire.Caminus anhelans. Pers. Smoking.Caminus ardens. Inuenal. Perperuus Caminus. Stat.Vrens caminus. Horat.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
cămīno, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a. [caminus], to make like an oven or furnace (very rare; perh. only in the foll. pass.), Plin. 16, 6, 8, 23: caminata fossura, id. 17, 11, 16, 80.
cămīnus, i, m., = h( ka/minos [Germ. Kamin; Fr. chemine/e; Engl. chimney], a furnace.I.A smelting-furnace for the working of metals, a forge, Ov. M. 7, 106; Pers. 5, 10; Plin. 33, 4, 21, 69; 35, 6, 16, 35: crescunt (patrimonia) incude assiduā semperque ardente camino, i. e.,
by incessant labor
, Juv. 14, 118.—B.Poet., the forge or smithy of Vulcan and the Cyclopes, under Ætna, Verg. A. 3, 580; 6, 630; 8, 418; Ov. F. 4, 473; Plin. 2, 106, 110, 237.—II.A furnace for heating an apartment, Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 19; Suet. Vit. 8.—Hence, B.Meton. = ignis, fire: camino luculento uti, Cic. Fam. 7, 10, 2; Hor. S. 1, 5, 81; Sen. Thyest. 766.—C. Prov.: oleum addere camino,
