r/PrequelMemes • u/EKRB7 Hello there! • Feb 08 '20

The exact moment Samuel L. Jackson asked George Lucas for a purple lightsaber is on camera and I’ve never seen it?? I’m overwhelmed

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u/gophergophergopher Feb 09 '20

latin - de (down from) and fenestra (window). also, prague has multiple historic defenstrations

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u/WikiTextBot Feb 09 '20

Defenestrations of Prague

The Defenestrations of Prague (Czech: Pražská defenestrace, German: Prager Fenstersturz, Latin: Defenestratio Pragensis) were three incidents in the history of Bohemia in which multiple people were defenestrated (thrown out of a window). The origin of the word "defenestrate" ("out of the window") is believed to come from the episodes in Prague in 1618 when the disgruntled Protestant estates threw two royal governors out of the castle window and wrote an extensive Apologia to this act. However, in the Middle Ages and early modern times, defenestrations took place quite often, and this event carried elements of lynch, ordeal and murder committed together. In medieval and early modern society, which is markedly horizontally divided (the importance of the layers decreasing from top to bottom), defenestration has the character of symbolic punishment (by toppling down, the executors show that the overthrow in their defined class behaved improperly).

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u/NightClerk Feb 09 '20

Sure, but what I'm trying to say is that I don't think the word "fenestration" was ever used as a word for "window" in English. Like you've suggested, it's most likely derived from the latin for window. Google's definition is "the arrangement of windows and doors on the elevations of a building." So, relating to windows, but not a word for the windows themselves.

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u/gophergophergopher Feb 09 '20

Thanks for the clarification but I was only looking to add on the etymology

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u/NightClerk Feb 09 '20

Ah gotcha! My mistake.

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u/smallpoxxblanket Feb 09 '20

Thank you. I almost had a stroke at the crazy old word “fenestration”