fiestra

Galician

Unha fiestra ― A window

Alternative forms

• festra
• fresta (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese fẽestra, from Latin fenestra. Cognate with Portuguese fresta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiˈɛstɾa/ [fiˈɛs̺.t̪ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɛstɾa
• Hyphenation: fi‧es‧tra

Noun

fiestra f (plural fiestras)

1. window

   Synonyms: ventá, xanela

   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 43:

     Despoys que passarõ quareenta dias que quedarõ as chuvias, parou mentes Noe cõmo avya ja tẽpo que nõ chouera, et abrio a feestra da arca et enviou o coruo por que se terra ou aruore ou algũa outra cousa achase.

     After forty days had passed and the rain stopped, Noah noticed that it has passed some time with no rain and so he opened the windows of the ark and sent the raven to find land or trees or anything.

2. small window, vent
3. needle eye

   Synonym: alfiestra

Related terms

• alfiestra

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “feestra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “fiestra”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, editor (2006–2013), “fiestra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, Ernesto X. González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “fiestra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fiestra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN