What is defenestration, in Spanish?
What is "Defenestration", which means to throw out a window; in English; in Spanish?
Examples;
(1)
Swiss engraver, Matthäus Merian, created an engraving of his impression of what the 1618 Prague Defenestration might have looked like, called the Defenestration of Prague
(2)
The, Defenestration of Prague, took place in Prague,Kingdom of Bohimia (now part of the Czech Republic); in 1618, at Prague Catle
2 Answers
I must admit I have never heard this word in any language, but here it is:
defenestration.............defenestración
1620, "the action of throwing out of a window," from L. fenestra "window." A word invented for one incident: the "Defenestration of Prague," May 21, 1618, when two Catholic deputies to the Bohemian national assembly and a secretary were tossed out the window (into a moat) of the castle of Hradshin by Protestant radicals. It marked the start of the Thirty Years War. Some linguists link fenestra with Gk. verb phainein "to show;" others see in it an Etruscan borrowing, based on the suffix -(s)tra, as in L. loan-words aplustre "the carved stern of a ship with its ornaments," genista "the plant broom," lanista "trainer of gladiators." Related: Defenestrate (1915); defenestrated (1620). Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Defenestración
defenestrar - the defenestrate...
(computing, humorous, slang) To stop using the Windows operating system