different between fenestra vs subfenestral

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

sub- +? fenestral

Adjective

subfenestral (not comparable)

1. Beneath a window.

   The wall was clean, save for a patch of subfenestral graffiti.

   • 1829, "Dr. George Shaw," in Personal and Literary Memorials, by Henry Digby Beste

     We even went down into the cellars, where was a vast vault filled with coal. "This puts to shame the subfenestral carbonaria of your alma mater." Every university-man knows how the coal-porter brings his sack on his shoulder, and empties the load into the hollowed-out window-seat; Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.

   • 1996, "In a Different Place: Feminist Aesthetics and the Picture Book", by Anne Lundin, in Ways of Knowing Kay E. Vandergrift, ed. [1]

     Under the Window’s subfenestral world is full of openings as well as suggestive of the ground, the underground of life.

2. (anatomy) Beneath a fenestra.
   • 2002, "Archaeopterygidae", by Andrzej Elzanowski, in Mesozoic Birds, Luis M. Chiappe & Lawrence M. Witmer edd.

     The maxilla has a slender nasal process and a long subfenestral part. […] Wellnhofer (1974) and Witmer (1997) reconstructed a fenestrate "ascending ramus" of the maxilla, as found in nonavian theropods.