English
fissula ante fenestram
Fissula ante fenestram comes from Latin fissulum ‘small cleft, slit’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfissulum‘small cleft, slit’
- Englishtodayfissula ante fenestram
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfissulum‘small cleft, slit’
- Englishtodayfissula ante fenestram
A compound of fissum ‘a cleft, slit, fissure’ + ante ‘in front of, before’ + fenestra ‘window’
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- ‘to split’
Proto-Indo-European *bʰinédti ‘to be splitting’
Proto-Italic *findō ‘to split, cleave’
Latin findō ‘to cleave, split, divide’
Latin fissus ‘cleft, cloven, split, divided’
Latin fissum ‘a cleft, slit, fissure’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- ‘front, front side’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti ‘opposite’
Proto-Italic *anti ‘before’
Latin ante ‘in front of, before’
Etruscan *𐌚𐌄𐌍𐌔𐌕𐌓𐌀
Etruscan *𐌚𐌍𐌄𐌔𐌕𐌓𐌀
Latin fenestra ‘window’
Every English word from Latin fissulum
Today it means
noun A small, connective tissue-filled cleft in the temporal bone, located just anterior to the oval window in the inner ear, that acts as a permanent, narrow pathway between the middle ear and the vestibule.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fissulum / fissula ante fenestram