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fenestra

See also: fenèstra

English

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The wings of many insects have transparent areas, called fenestrae.

Etymology

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

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

  1. (anatomy) An opening in a body, sometimes with a membrane.
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Franco-Provençal

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

  1. Alternative form of fenétra (“window”)

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Interlingua

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Etymology

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

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fenestra (plural fenestras)

  1. window

Latin

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Etymology

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

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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

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fenestra fenestrae
Genitive fenestrae fenestrārum
Dative fenestrae fenestrīs
Accusative fenestram fenestrās
Ablative fenestrā fenestrīs
Vocative fenestra fenestrae

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References

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  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “fenestra”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 478

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  • “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

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin fenestra. Compare the inherited doublet fresta.

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  • Hyphenation: fe‧nes‧tra

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fenestra f (plural fenestras)

  1. (dated, formal) window
    Synonym: janela

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin fenestra.

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fenestra f (plural fenestre)

  1. fenestra

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

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Etymology

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

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

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fenestra f (plural fenestras)

  1. (dated) window
    Synonym: ventana

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