grille

See also: Grille and grillé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French grille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹɪl/
• Rhymes: -ɪl

Noun

grille (plural grilles)

1. Alternative form of grill (only in the senses of "grating over opening" and "grating on the front of a vehicle")
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     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

• Giller

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁij/

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Etymology 1

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 f (plural grilles)

1. gate

   À huit heures et quart, on ferme la grille d’entrée de l’école.

   At 8:15, we close the school’s entrance gate.

2. grate

   La grille du barbecue est pleine de graisse de saucisses.

   The barbecue grate is covered in grease from the sausages.

3. grid

   Ci-joint la grille d’évaluation.

   Attachment: assessment grid.

Derived terms

• gril
• griller

Descendants

• → English: grille
• → Italian: griglia

Etymology 2

Verb

grille

1. first-person singular present indicative of griller
2. third-person singular present indicative of griller
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of griller
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of griller
5. second-person singular imperative of griller

Further reading

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

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German

Verb

grille

1. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of grillen.
2. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular subjunctive I of grillen.
3. (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular subjunctive I of grillen.
4. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of grillen.

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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

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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,

Descendants

• English: gril

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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.

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Spanish

Verb

grille

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of grillar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of grillar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of grillar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of grillar.