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

Etymology tree

French grillebor.

English grille

Borrowed from French grille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹɪl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• 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.

Derived terms

• grilled
• grille guard
• grillework

Anagrams

• Giller

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁij/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Paris):

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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

• gril
• grillade
• grillage
• grille de commande
• grille de départ
• grille d’arrêt
• grille d’eau
• griller
• grilleur
• grilloir

Descendants

• → English: grille, grill
• → Italian: griglia

Etymology 2

Verb

grille

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

Further reading

• “grille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Verb

grille

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

Limburgish

Alternative forms

• chrèlle, chrille, gkrèlle, gkrille, grèlle

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

• English: gril

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)

Related terms

• grill

References

• “grille” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Spanish

Verb

grille

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