finiestra

• fyniestra (alternative spelling)

From Latin fenestra, probably from Etruscan.

• IPA^(key): /hiˈnjestɾa/
• Hyphenation: hi‧nies‧tra

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.

• Spanish: hiniestra, finiestra

• hiniestra

Older form of hiniestra, itself now archaic.

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

finiestra f (plural finiestras)

1. (obsolete) window

   Synonym: ventana

• “finiestra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024