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“Fenestra” is the Latin word for “window.” It’s very similar in form and usage to “porta,” meaning “door.” If the word “deportation” means being pushed out the
by pyuser583 3y ago
“Fenestra” is the Latin word for “window.” It’s very similar in form and usage to “porta,” meaning “door.”
If the word “deportation” means being pushed out the door, then “defenestration” should, logically, mean being pushed out the window.
This is a word which, logically, should exist. And it does. But in practice it is used by Latin students who are looking for an excuse to use it.
- cptnapalm 3y agoNot a day has gone by where I have not been sensitive to opportunities to use the word "defenestrate".
- defaultcompany 3y agoWe always joked that if you throw someone out a window without bothering to open it first then it is a transfenestration.
- pyuser583 3y agoWouldn’t that mean throwing someone out of one window and into another? Or is that confenestration?
- BrandoElFollito 3y agoThis is the normal word used in French to say "pushed through window" (in a slightly more literal language, but not that much. You would hear it on the news on tv for instance)