fenestra

 

Unadapted borrowing from Latin fenestra. Existed in Middle English as fenestre, fenester, from Old English fenester (“window”).

fenestra (plural fenestras or fenestrae or (obsolete) fenestræ)

1. (anatomy) An opening in a body, sometimes with a membrane.
   • 2010, Aina J. Gulya, Lloyd B. Minor, Michael E. Glasscock, Glasscock-Shambaugh Surgery of the Ear, page 536:

     The platinum shaft connecting the ribbon to the piston base is a rounded wire and can be easily angulated after placement of the prosthesis for optimal incus to fenestra reach.

• vestibular window, oval window (in reference to the human ear)

• Feenstra, fastener, refasten

fenestra (plural fenestres) (Old Beaujolais, Old Dauphinois)

1. Alternative form of fenétra (“window”)

• fenestra in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fenestra”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 452

From Latin. Compare Italian finestra, French fenêtre, Esperanto fenestro, German Fenster, Dutch venster, Romanian fereastră, Catalan finestra.

• IPA^(key): /feˈnes.tra/

fenestra (plural fenestras)

1. window

• fēstra

Apparently from Etruscan *fnestra (and fēstra from Etruscan *fenstra), compare the personal name Etruscan [script needed] (fnes-ci) and the placename Latin Fensernia, but nothing is known about the meaning of the Etruscan base.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /feˈnes.tra/, [fɛˈnɛs̠t̪rä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /feˈnes.tra/, [feˈnɛst̪rä]

fenestra f (genitive fenestrae); first declension

1. a window, an opening for light,

   Haec domus quattuor fenestrās habet.

   This house has four windows.

2. a breach
3. a loophole, an arrowslit
4. an orifice, inlet
5. an opportunity, opening, occasion, window of opportunity

First-declension noun.

• fenestella
• fenestrula

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: fireastrã
  • Romanian: fereastră, fereastă
    • → Romani: felyastra
• Dalmatian:
  • finiastra
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: finestra
  • Italian: finestra
  • Neapolitan: fenesta
  • Sicilian: finestra, finesra
• Padanian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: fnèstra
    • Lombard: fenestra, finestra, fnestra
    • Piedmontese: fnestra, fnesta
  • Romansch: fanestra, finiastra, fnestra, faneastra
  • Venetan: finestra, fenestra
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: finestra
  • Franco-Provençal: fenétra
  • Old French: fenestre (see there for further descendants)
  • Gascon: hrièsta, herièsta, hièstra, hiestra
  • Occitan: fenèstra
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: finestra
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: fẽestra
    • Galician: fiestra
    • Portuguese: fresta
  • Old Spanish: finiestra
    • Early Modern Spanish: hiniestra
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: fënjeshtër
  • → Breton: prenestr, fenestr (or via French)
  • → Cornish: fenester
  • → English: fenestra (learned)
  • → Old Irish: seinistir
  • → Portuguese: fenestra (learned)
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *fenestr (see there for further descendants)
  • → Spanish: fenestra (learned)
  • → Welsh: ffenestr, ffenest

• “fenestra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fenestra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fenestra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fenestra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “fenestra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fenestra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from Latin fenestra. Compare the inherited doublet fresta.

• Hyphenation: fe‧nes‧tra

fenestra f (plural fenestras)

1. (dated, formal) window

   Synonym: janela

Borrowed from Latin fenestra.

fenestra f (plural fenestre)

1. fenestra

• fenestra in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

• finiestra, hiniestra

Borrowed from Latin fenestra. Doublet of hiniestra, which was inherited.

• IPA^(key): /feˈnestɾa/ [feˈnes.t̪ɾa]
• Rhymes: -estɾa
• Syllabification: fe‧nes‧tra

fenestra f (plural fenestras)

1. (dated) window

   Synonym: ventana

• “fenestra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10