English
fenestra
Fenestra comes from Latin fenestra ‘a window, an opening for light’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfenestra‘a window, an opening for light’
- Englishearliest quotation 2010same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfenestra‘a window, an opening for light’
- Englishearliest quotation 2010same form
Earliest quotation: 2010, Aina J. Gulya, Lloyd B. Minor: “The platinum shaft connecting the ribbon to the piston…”
The story
Existed in Middle English as fenestre, fenester, from Old English fenester (‘window’).
Every English word from Latin fenestra
Today it means
noun An opening in a body, sometimes with a membrane.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fenestra / fenestra