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The Learning Kingdom's Cool Word of the Day for March 1, 1999
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defenestrate [v. dee-FEN-ih-strayt]
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If you have ever thrown something out a window, then you defenestrated
it, and you engaged in defenestration.
Something that is fenestrated is something that has windows, and
fenestration is the design and placement of windows in buildings. A
fenestra is a small opening such as a hole in a bone, or a transparent
window in a moth's wing.
All of these window words come from the Latin fenestra (window).
The Learning Kingdom suggests these new window words:
refenestrate: to climb back into a window after jumping out
exofenestral: outside of a window
intrafenestral: inside of a window
Here's a way to use the last two: "is that spider exofenestral or
intrafenestral?"
Here's a beautiful fenestra:
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