"Fornicalia" meaning in English

See Fornicalia in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Fornicalia
  1. Alternative spelling of Fornacalia (“Roman baking festival”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: Fornacalia (extra: Roman baking festival)
    Sense id: en-Fornicalia-en-name-47UA~tqS
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Proper name

Etymology: 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). Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Fornicalia
  1. (humorous) California (a state of the United States) Tags: humorous Categories (place): California, USA, Places in the United States, States of the United States
    Sense id: en-Fornicalia-en-name-5ZyGTquq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 71 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 23 77 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 27 73
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2
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