alt Hacker NewsNot at all. It's just the Latin prefix "de" (out of) plus "fenester" meaning window. Not an English word except by borrowing.
Not at all. It's just the Latin prefix "de" (out of) plus "fenester" meaning window. Not an English word except by borrowing.
The joke was that [to my then knowledge] it's not used in Romance languages, but it is used in English.