fenestella

See also: Fenestella

English

Etymology

From Latin fenestella.

Noun

fenestella (plural fenestellae)

1. A niche on the south side of an altar, containing the piscina and sometimes the credence.

Latin

Etymology

From fenestra (“window”) +‎ -la (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fe.nesˈtel.la/, [fɛnɛs̠ˈt̪ɛlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fe.nesˈtel.la/, [fenesˈt̪ɛlːä]

Noun

fenestella f (genitive fenestellae); first declension

1. A small opening in the wall; small window, slit; niche.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fenestella	fenestellae
Genitive	fenestellae	fenestellārum
Dative	fenestellae	fenestellīs
Accusative	fenestellam	fenestellās
Ablative	fenestellā	fenestellīs
Vocative	fenestella	fenestellae

Synonyms

• (small window): fenestrula

Related terms

• fenestra
• fenestrō
• fenestrula

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Sicilian: finistreḍḍa

References

• “fenestella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fenestella 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)
• fenestella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “fenestella”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fenestella”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray