Re: Great Debian experience
On Wednesday 19 March 2014 17:47:20 Charles Kroeger wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:10:02 +0100
>
> Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > fenestral hordes.
>
> I rather like your description of them but wouldn't it have been
> more proper to use the term 'fenestrated' it is an adjective. In
> anatomy, this would apply to 'having perforations, apertures
> suggesting perhaps of having been buggered.
Yes - but I was not talking doctor-speak, which is a language all of
itys own. I am quite happy that fenestral means _exactly_ what I
intended it to mean! And it was certainly "proper" to use it in that
way. In architecture it is fenestrated that would mean having holes!!
From Wiktionary:
Adjective
fenestral (not comparable)
(architecture) Relating to a window or windows.
Adjective
fenestrated (comparative more fenestrated, superlative most
fenestrated)
(architecture) Having windows
From Collins 20C dictionary - more my own era ;-) -
fenestrated - .....pierced, perforated ...
> Deo Soli Debianae Invicto Seculari
While we are correcting each other, Liddle and Scott prefers
saeculari. You must be American!
Lisi
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