trellis

English

A trellis for growing climbing plants

Etymology

From Middle English trelis, from Anglo-Norman treslis, from Old French treille (“arbor”), from Latin trichila (“arbor", "summer house”). However, see OED which claims another Old French form referring to sackcloth, from Vulgar Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɛlɪs/

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Noun

trellis (plural trellises)

1. An outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.
2. An outdoor garden frame that can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Declaration”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 90:

     It was a very warm evening; and the moonlight turned the Thames to an unbroken mirror of silver, and gave to the soft shadows of the shrubs, and the creepers that wound among the trellises, an appearance almost Italian.

3. (computing theory, telecommunications) A kind of graph, used in communication theory and encryption, whose nodes are ordered into vertical slices by time, with each node at each time connected to at least one node at an earlier and at least one node at a later time.

Synonyms

• treillage

Derived terms

• trellis drainage
• trellis frame
• trellis modulation
• trellis quantization
• trellis rust

Translations

An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area

• Bulgarian: решетка (bg) f (rešetka)
• Finnish: säleikkö (fi), ristikko (fi)
• French: treillage (fr) m
• German: Gatter (de) n, Schmuckgitter n, Ziergitter n
• Italian: graticcio (it) m, inferriata (it) f, recinzione (it) f
• Maori: arapaki, taiepa tūwatawata
• Spanish: enrejado (es) m

An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants

• Armenian: սարբինա (hy) (sarbina), թառմա (hy) (tʻaṙma)
• Bulgarian: асма f (asma), рамка (bg) f (ramka)
• Czech: treláž (cs) m
• Danish: espalier n
• Finnish: ristikko (fi), säleikkö (fi)
• French: espalier (fr) m, treille (fr) m
• Galician: espaleira f, espaller m
• German: Klettergerüst (de) n, Rankgerüst n, Spalier (de) n
• Hungarian: lugas (hu)
• Italian: graticcio (it) m, pergola (it) f, pergolato (it) m, traliccio (it) m
• Malay: jejala (ms)
• Maori: titara
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: espalier n

• Ottoman Turkish: چارطاق (çardak), عریش (ʼariş)
• Persian: آلاچیق (fa) (âlâčiq)
• Polish: trejaż m, treliaż m
• Portuguese: treliça (pt) f
• Russian: трелья́ж (ru) m (trelʹjáž)
• Spanish: espaldar (es) m, espaldera f, espalera f
• Swedish: spaljé (sv) c
• Tagalog: balag
• Ukrainian: трелья́ж m (trelʹjáž)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Russian: решётка (ru) f (rešótka), шпале́ра (ru) f (špaléra)

Verb

trellis (third-person singular simple present trellises, present participle trellising, simple past and past participle trellised)

1. (transitive) To train or arrange (plants) so that they grow against a trellis.

   to trellis vines

Derived terms

• trellissing

Anagrams

• Stiller, Tillers, retills, rillets, stiller, tillers