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English
Etymology
From Latin fenestella.
Noun
fenestella (plural fenestellae)
- 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
Noun
fenestella f (genitive fenestellae); first declension
- A small opening in the wall; small window, slit; niche.
Declension
First-declension noun.
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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