Fenestraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

fenestra (plural fenestras or fenestrae or (obsolete) 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)

関連する語

アナグラム

• Feenstra, fastener, refasten

語源

Apparently from Etruscan *𐌚𐌍𐌄𐌔𐌕𐌓𐌀 (*fnestra); and fēstra from Etruscan *𐌚𐌄𐌍𐌔𐌕𐌓𐌀 (*fenstra). Compare the Etruscan personal name [script needed] (fnes-ci) and the Latin placename Fensernia, but nothing is known about the meaning of the Etruscan base.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [fɛˈnɛs.tra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [feˈnɛs.t̪ra]

名詞

fenestra f (genitive fenestrae); first declension

1. a window, an opening for light,

   Haec domus quattuor fenestrās 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

Further reading

• “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 and 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