Fenestra, -ae (f) meaning window is another Latin word which has passed in to various languages.
Dutch venster
French la fenetre (f) [the circumflex on the middle e has been omitted]
German das Fenster (n)
Italian finestra (f)
Welsh ffenestr (f)
The English noun window is, of course, unrelated, however we do have a very specific verb from fenestra - defenestrate, which means to throw a person out of a window.
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