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語源

Borrowed from Latin fenestra. Existed in Middle English as fenestre, fenester, from 古期英語 fenester (“window”).

名詞

fenestra (plural fenestras or fenestrae or (廃れた用法) 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.

同意語

• vestibular window, oval window (in reference to the human ear)

アナグラム

• Feenstra, fastener, refasten

Latin

別の表記

• fēstra

語源

Probably of Etruscan origin.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /feˈnes.tra/, [fɛˈnɛs̠t̪rä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /feˈnes.tra/, [feˈnɛst̪rä]

名詞

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

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

• fenestella
• fenestrula

派生した語

参照

• “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 かつ 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