festra

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfeːs.tra/, [ˈfeːs̠t̪rä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfes.tra/, [ˈfɛst̪rä]

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.