festra

Latin

Etymology

From fenestra (window) via syncope and nasal deletion with compensatory lengthening.

Pronunciation

Noun

fēstra f (genitive fēstrae); first declension

  1. (pre-Classical) alternative form of fenestra (window)

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative fēstra fēstrae
genitive fēstrae fēstrārum
dative fēstrae fēstrīs
accusative fēstram fēstrās
ablative fēstrā fēstrīs
vocative fēstra fēstrae

References

  • festra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "festra", 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)
  • festra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.