festra

== Latin == === Etymology === From fenestra (“window”) via syncope and nasal deletion with compensatory lengthening. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfeːs.tra] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɛs.tra] === Noun === fēstra f (genitive fēstrae); first declension (pre-classical) alternative form of fenestra (“window”) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. === References === “festra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "festra", 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) “festra”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.