window
window
subs.
Ar. and P. θῠρί̆ς, ἡ.
subs.
Ar. and P. θῠρί̆ς, ἡ.
WINDOW
fenestra (an opening in a wall to admit both light and air. ☞ The fenestrae were secured with window-shutters curtains and lattice-work; afterward under the emperors with the transparent lapis phengites or specularis talc or mica; hence specularia such windows; also hot-house windows Martialis 8 14): vitreae (glass-windows are mentioned for the first time in the fourth century Hieronymus in Ezech. 40 16). A blind window fenestrae imago (Vitr. 4 2 4): having windows fenestratus: to open the windows (so as to let air into a room) cubiculi fenestras patefacere sic ut perflatus aliquis accedat (Vid: Celsus 3 19); perflatum in cubiculum totis admittere fenestris (Ov. Plin.).
fenestra (an opening in a wall to admit both light and air. ☞ The fenestrae were secured with window-shutters curtains and lattice-work; afterward under the emperors with the transparent lapis phengites or specularis talc or mica; hence specularia such windows; also hot-house windows Martialis 8 14): vitreae (glass-windows are mentioned for the first time in the fourth century Hieronymus in Ezech. 40 16). A blind window fenestrae imago (Vitr. 4 2 4): having windows fenestratus: to open the windows (so as to let air into a room) cubiculi fenestras patefacere sic ut perflatus aliquis accedat (Vid: Celsus 3 19); perflatum in cubiculum totis admittere fenestris (Ov. Plin.).
appearing fewer than 50 times
θυρίςa window
λουμενάριον
(luminarium), window
παραθυρίς
side-window
φανόπτης
opening for light, window
φωτοθυρίς
window
Windows
See domus.