fenestra

Borrowed from Latin fenestra.

fenestra (plural fenestras or fenestrae)

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.

• IPA^(key): /feˈnes.tra/

fenestra (plural fenestras)

1. window

• festra

Probably of Etruscan origin.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /feˈnes.tra/, [fɛˈnɛs.tra]

fenestra f (genitive fenestrae); first declension

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

1. a window, an opening for light,

   Haec domus quattuor fenestras habet.

   This house has four windows.

2. a breach, a loophole
3. an orifice, inlet
4. an opportunity
5. vocative singular of fenestra

fenestrā f

1. ablative singular of fenestra

First declension.

• fenestrula

• Aromanian: fireastrã
• Corsican: finestra
• Dalmatian: finiastra
• Emilian: fnèstra
• Italian: finestra
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: finestra
• Neapolitan: fenesta
• Old French: fenestre
  • Middle French: fenestre
    • French: fenêtre, fenestre
      • Haitian Creole: fenèt
      • → Breton: prenestr, fenestr (or directly from Latin)
  • Walloon: finiesse
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: finestra
  • Occitan: fenèstra
• Old Portuguese: fẽestra
  • Galician: fiestra
  • Portuguese: fresta
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: finiestra, hiniestra
• Romanian: fereastră
  • → Romani: felyastra
• Romansch: fanestra
• Sicilian: finestra
• Venetian: finestra, fenestra
• → Albanian: fënjeshtër
• → Breton: prenestr, fenestr (or via French)
• → Cornish: fenester
• → English: fenestra
• → Middle Low German: venster, vinster
  • → Old Swedish: fynster, finster
    • Swedish: fönster
  • → Westrobothnian: fenster, fęinstęr, fönster
• → Old Dutch: fenstar
  • Middle Dutch: venster, venstre, veinster
    • Dutch: venster
      • Afrikaans: venster
        • → Sotho: fenstere
        • → Xhosa: ifestile
        • → Zulu: ifasitela
    • → West Frisian: veister
• → Old High German: fenstar
  • Middle High German: venster
    • Alemannic German: Pfeister, Pfäischter, Feister, Fäischter, Pfenster

      Swabian: Fenschdr, Feaschter

    • Cimbrian: béestar
    • German: Fenster
      • → English: fenster
      • → North Frisian: Fenster
    • East Central German:

      Erzgebirgisch: Fansder

      Upper Saxon: Fensdor

    • Luxembourgish: Fënster
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Palatine German: Fenschder

      Pennsylvania German: Fenschder

    • Vilamovian: faonster
    • Yiddish: פֿענצטער‎ (fentster)
• → Portuguese: fenestra
• → Spanish: fenestra
• → Swedish: fönster
• → 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, 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.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɨ.ˈnɛʃ.tɾɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fe.ˈnɛs.tɾɐ/, /fɛ.ˈnɛs.tɾa/
• Hyphenation: fe‧nes‧tra

fenestra f (plural fenestras)

1. (dated, formal) window

• janela

• finiestra, hiniestra

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

• IPA^(key): /fe̞ˈne̞s.tɾa/
• Hyphenation: fe‧nes‧tra

fenestra f (plural fenestras)

1. (dated) window

• ventana f

• defenestrar
• defenestración f

• “fenestra” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.