英语词汇defenestration的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

defenestration. Here is a nonce word that lasted. On May 21, 1618 three Catholic members of the Bohemian National Coun- cil were thrown out of a window of the castle of Prague by Prot- estant insurgents. Though the Catholic members landed in the moat and weren’t badly injured, this incident marked the be- ginning of the Thirty Years’ War that spread throughout Eu rope. The incident became known as the Defenestration of Prague, the word defenestration coined to describe it from the Latin de, “from,” and fenestra, “window.” Defenestration has since meant “the act of throwing a person out a window.”

词汇	defenestration
词源	defenestration. Here is a nonce word that lasted. On May 21, 1618 three Catholic members of the Bohemian National Coun- cil were thrown out of a window of the castle of Prague by Prot- estant insurgents. Though the Catholic members landed in the moat and weren’t badly injured, this incident marked the be- ginning of the Thirty Years’ War that spread throughout Eu rope. The incident became known as the Defenestration of Prague, the word defenestration coined to describe it from the Latin de, “from,” and fenestra, “window.” Defenestration has since meant “the act of throwing a person out a window.”
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