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4252726 No.4252726[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

ITT favorite words / interesting words you have come across

I just recently ran into the word 'defenestration', which apparently is (according to webster) is "a throwing of a person or thing out of a window", but especially when used for a person.

I think it is funny that it is so specific - that it is specifically the act of throwing a person out of a window

>> No.4252729

You never read any history, then. Look up the Defenestration of Prague. It happened twice.

>> No.4252735

>>4252729

I now like the word even more

>> No.4252754

> fenestra, -ae (f.)
> being this much of a plea not knowing latin roots

>> No.4252755

I remember that word was all the rage when I was a junior in high school and my friends had just learned about the Defenestration of Prague in their Medieval history class.