finiestra

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• fyniestra (alternative spelling)

Etymology

From Latin fenestra, probably from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiˈnjestɾa/

Noun

finiestra f (plural finiestras)

1. window
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 37r:

     Qvando entro noe en el archa auẏe .dc. annos e fue el diluuio de las aguas abrieron ſe todas las fõtanas del abiſmo ⁊ fueron abiertas las fẏnieſtras de los cielos e plouio ſobre la tŕa .xL. dias ⁊ .xL. noches.

     When Noah entered the ark he was six hundred years old. And the deluge of the waters took place. All the fountains of the deep were opened and so too the windows of the heavens. And it rained upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Descendants

• Spanish: hiniestra, finiestra

Spanish

Alternative forms

• hiniestra

Etymology

Older form of hiniestra, itself now archaic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiˈnjestɾa/ [fiˈnjes.t̪ɾa]
• Rhymes: -estɾa
• Syllabification: fi‧nies‧tra

Noun

finiestra f (plural finiestras)

1. (obsolete) window

   Synonym: ventana

Further reading

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