fenestra

Borrowed 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

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

• (Classical) 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 fenestras 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

• “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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014