fenestella
noun
fenestella is a noun meaning “A niche on the south side of an altar, containing the piscina and sometimes the credence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-N-E-S-T-E-L-L-A, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fenestella is fenestellae.
What does fenestella mean?
noun
- 1
A niche on the south side of an altar, containing the piscina and sometimes the credence.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fenestella
- fenestellae plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fenestella?
Fenestella appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fenestella come from?
Borrowed from Latin fenestella.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).