jalousie

See also: Jalousie

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French jalousie. Doublet of jealousy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒæləsiː/

Noun

jalousie (plural jalousies)

1. (naval architecture) A component in a ventilation system.
2. Upward sloping window slats which form a blind or shutter, allowing light and air in but excluding rain and direct sun.
   • 1859 “A small lofty room, with its window wide open, and the wooden jalousie-blinds closed, so that the dark night only showed in slight horizontal lines of black, alternating with their broad lines of stone colour.” — Dickens, Tale of Two Cities
3. A pastry with the upper side sliced before final baking to resemble a wooden slatted blind.

Translations

window slats which form a blind or shutter

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 百叶窗 (zh) (bǎi yè chuāng)

• Dutch: jaloezie (nl) f, blinden (nl) pl
• French: jalousie (fr) f
• German: Jalousie (de) f

• Greek: γρίλια (el) f (grília)
• Portuguese: gelosia (pt) f
• Russian: жалюзи́ (ru) (žaljuzí)
• Spanish: celosía (es) f
• Turkish: jaluzi (tr)

See also

• blind
• curtain

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French

Etymology 1

From jaloux +‎ -ie, 12th c.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒa.lu.zi/
• Rhymes: -i

Noun

jalousie f (plural jalousies)

1. jealousy

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian gelosia, 15th c., from the same root.

Noun

jalousie f (plural jalousies)

1. (historical) (latticework) screen
2. Venetian blind

Descendants

• → Czech: žaluzie
• → Dutch: jaloezie
• → English: jalousie
• → German: Jalousie
• → Russian: жалюзи́ (žaljuzí)
• → Turkish: jaluzi

Further reading

• “jalousie” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• jelousye, gelusie, jalousye, jaloucie, gelusye, gelosye, jelosye, gelosesye, jelowsy, gelesye, gelousy, jelosie

Etymology

From Old French jalousie, derived from jalous, from Late Latin zelosus (“full of love and sympathy”), derived from Latin zelus (“zealous”), from Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos, “envy, lust, rivalry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒɛˈluːsiː(ə)/, /ˈdʒɛlusiː(ə)/, /ˈdʒɛləsiː(ə)/

Noun

jalousie (plural jelousies)

1. Jealousness or jealousy in a relationship or marriage.
2. Passion; romantic or sexual desire.
3. zealousness, devotion, belief.
4. (rare) distrust, wrath, ire
5. (rare) care, wrath, ire
6. (rare) paranoia, suspecting

Descendants

• English: jealousy
• Scots: jealousy

References

• “jelǒusī(e (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-18.

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Norman

Noun

jalousie f (plural jalousies)

1. (Jersey) sweet william

Synonyms

• girofliée valine