fenestella

== 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 === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fɛ.nɛsˈtɛl.la] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [fe.nesˈtɛl.la] === Noun === fenestella f (genitive fenestellae); first declension A small opening in the wall; small window, slit; niche. ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== (small window): fenestrula ==== Related terms ==== fenestra fenestrō fenestrula ==== Descendants ==== Italo-Romance: Sicilian: finistreḍḍa === References === “fenestella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "fenestella", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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