grille

See also: Grille and grillé

English
French Rococo balcony grille, circa 1700, made of wrought iron
French Art Nouveau grille of a Paris metro entrance, circa 1900, made of cast iron

Etymology

Borrowed from French grille.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡɹɪl/
  • Rhymes: -ɪl
  • Homophone: grill

Noun

grille (plural grilles)

  1. Alternative form of grill (only in the senses of "grating over opening", "grating on the front of a vehicle", and "window divider")
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
      The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡʁij/
  • Audio(file)
  • Audio (Paris)(file)

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French grille, grisle, from Old French greille, graïlle, from earlier gradilie (end of 10th century), from Latin crāticula (or a Vulgar Latin graticula).

Noun
Grille du Victoria College

grille f (plural grilles)

  1. bars; railings; rack; grate
    grille de fenêtre ― window bars
    grille d’un fourneau ― oven rack
    grilles d’une prison ― prison bars
    La grille du barbecue est pleine de graisse de saucisses.
    The barbecue grate is covered in grease from the sausages.
  2. gate (with bars)
    À huit heures et quart, on ferme la grille d’entrée de l’école.
    At 8:15, we close the school’s entrance gate.
  3. grid
    grilles de sudoku ― sudoku grids
    grille de mots croisés ― crossword grid
    Ci-joint la grille d’évaluation. ― Attachment: assessment grid.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → English: grille, grill
  • → Italian: griglia

Verb

grille

  1. inflection of griller:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

German

Pronunciation
  • Audio(file)

Verb

grille

  1. inflection of grillen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Limburgish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch grillen, itself borrowed from English grill. Displaced older steinreustere.

Verb

grille

  1. to grill

Conjugation
Montfortian conjugation of grille (first conjugation)
non-finite forms infinitive gerund present participle past participle adjective adverb
(tö) grille 't grille n grillendj höbbe gegril gegrildje, gegrildjer, gegrildjes gegrildj, gegrildjelik
number & tense verb-second order verb-first order
present past subjunctive present past subjunctive
first person singular gril grildje grille gril grildje-n grille-n
second person singular grils grildjes grille grils grildjes griller
third person singular griltj grildje grille griltj'r grildje griller
first person plural grille grildje grille griltj grildje grille
second person plural griltj grildje grille griltj grildje grilletj
third person plural grille grildje grille grille grildje griller
other forms noun imperative singular impolite imperative singular polite imperative dual imperative plural inclusive
't gegril n gril! griltj! griltj, grilletj! griltj! grillem

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English grel (“harsh”). Compare German grell (“lurid, shrill”).

Adjective

grille

  1. gril, harsh, severe
    • c. 1370s. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose. 71-4.
      The briddes, that han left hir song,
      Whyl they han suffred cold so strong
      In wedres grille, and derk to sighte,
      Ben in May, for the sonne brighte,
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

grille (imperative grill, present tense griller, passive grilles, simple past and past participle grilla or grillet, present participle grillende)

  1. to grill (food, in a grill)
  2. (figuratively) to grill (subject someone to intense questioning)

References

Spanish

Verb

grille

  1. inflection of grillar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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