Etymograph

English

fenestration

Fenestration comes from Latin fenestratio.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfenestratio
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2005fenestration

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfenestratio
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2005fenestration

Earliest quotation: 2005, S. Tucker, Australian Systematic Botany: “The terms ‘nectar window’ and ‘fenestration’ are used interchangeably…”

Today it means

noun The arrangement of windows and similar openings in a building.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin fenestratio / fenestration