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Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]grille (plural grilles)
- 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
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]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
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grille f (plural grilles)
- 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.
- 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.
- grid
- grilles de sudoku ― sudoku grids
- grille de mots croisés ― crossword grid
- Ci-joint la grille d’évaluation. ― Attachment: assessment grid.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]grille
- inflection of griller:
Further reading
[edit]- “grille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Verb
[edit]grille
- inflection of grillen:
Limburgish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Dutch grillen, itself borrowed from English grill. Displaced older steinreustere.
Verb
[edit]grille
- to grill
Conjugation
[edit]Montfortian conjugation of grille (first conjugation)
non-finite forms | infinitive | gerund | present participle | past participle | adjective | adverb |
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(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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English grel (“harsh”). Compare German grell (“lurid, shrill”).
Adjective
[edit]grille
- 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)
- c. 1370s. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose. 71-4.
Descendants
[edit]- English: gril
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Verb
[edit]grille (imperative grill, present tense griller, passive grilles, simple past and past participle grilla or grillet, present participle grillende)
- to grill (food, in a grill)
- (figuratively) to grill (subject someone to intense questioning)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “grille” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]grille
- inflection of grillar:
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