grille

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")
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 24962326:

     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

Etymology

From Old French greille < Latin crāticula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁij/

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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.

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 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Verb

grille

1. First-person singular present of grillen.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of grillen.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of grillen.
4. Imperative singular of grillen.

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

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,

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)

References

• “grille” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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.