different between fenestra vs foramen

English

Etymology

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

Noun

fenestra (plural fenestras or fenestrae)

1. (anatomy) An opening in a body, sometimes with a membrane.

Synonyms

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

Anagrams

• Feenstra, fastener, refasten

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin. Compare Italian finestra, French fenêtre, Esperanto fenestro, German Fenster, Dutch venster, Romanian fereastr?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?nes.tra/

Noun

fenestra (plural fenestras)

1. window

Latin

Alternative forms

• f?stra

Etymology

Probably of Etruscan origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fe?nes.tra/, [f??n?s?t??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fe?nes.tra/, [f??n?st???]

Noun

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
6. vocative singular of fenestra

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• fenestrula

Descendants

Noun

fenestr? f

1. ablative singular of fenestra

References

• 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

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fenestra. Compare the inherited doublet fresta.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /f?.?n??.t??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fe.?n?s.t??/, /f?.?n?s.t?a/
• Hyphenation: fe?nes?tra

Noun

fenestra f (plural fenestras)

1. (dated, formal) window

   Synonym: janela

Spanish

Alternative forms

• finiestra, hiniestra

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?nest?a/, [fe?nes.t??a]
• Hyphenation: fe?nes?tra

Noun

fenestra f (plural fenestras)

1. (dated) window

   Synonym: ventana

Derived terms

• defenestrar
• defenestración f

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin for?men (“aperture or opening produced by boring”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f???e?.m?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /f???e?.m?n/
• Rhymes: -e?m?n

Noun

foramen (plural foramina or foramens)

1. (anatomy) An opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone.

   Hyponyms: alar foramen, foramen cecum, foramen magnum, foramen of Magendie, foramen of Monro, foramen of Morgagni, foramen of Winslow, foramen ovale, foramen triosseum, neuroforamen, parietal foramen

Derived terms

• foraminal
• foraminate
• foraminous

References

• “foramen”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “foramen”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

See also

• meatus

Anagrams

• Foreman, foreman, name for

Latin

Etymology

From for? (“to pierce or bore”) +? -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fo?ra?.men/, [f???ä?m?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fo?ra.men/, [f?????m?n]

Noun

for?men n (genitive for?minis); third declension

1. (Classical Latin, rare) An opening or aperture produced by boring; a hole.
2. (transferred sense, Late Latin) An opening, hole, cave.

   Synonym: caverna

Inflection

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

• for?men ac?s
• for?min?tus
• for?min?sus

Related terms

• for?tus
• for?

Descendants

References

• foramen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• foramen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• foramen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• foramen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin for?men (“aperture, opening”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fo??amen/, [fo??a.m?n]

Noun

foramen m (plural forámenes)

1. (anatomy) foramen

Derived terms

Related terms

• foraminífero
• perforar
• horadar