different between arbour vs pergola

English

Alternative forms

• arbor (US)

Etymology

From Middle English arbere, arber, an alteration of herber, erber (“pleasure garden; herb garden”) influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).

Noun

arbour (plural arbours)

1. A shady sitting place, usually in a park or garden, and usually surrounded by climbing shrubs or vines and other vegetation.
2. A shady walk.

Middle English

Noun

arbour (plural arbours)

1. a lawn or a flower bed, a grassy plot
2. a shaded nook

English

Alternative forms

• pergolo (dated)
• pergula

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pergola, from Latin pergula.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p????l?/

Noun

pergola (plural pergolas or pergole)

1. A framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants.
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 61:

     By the little garden pergola open to the winds some fluttered peacocks were blotted nervelessly amid the dripping trees, their heads sunk back beneath their wings: while in the pergola itself, like a fallen storm-cloud, lolled a negress, her levelled, polecat eyes semi-veiled by the nebulous alchemy of the rainbow.

   • 2000, Gordon Bock, "Pergolas in perspective", Old-House Journal, July/August 2000:

     While both pergolas and arbors are most dramatic cloaked in climbing, flowing plants, only a pergola will stand naked as a piece of architecture.

   • 2009, Jerri Farris, Creating Garden Accents: Step-by-Step Instructions for 22 Projects, Creative Publishing International (2002), ?ISBN, page 98:

     When I first saw the movie, Chocolat, my favorite element wasn't the plot or the character development or even the cinematography. It was the cloth-draped pergola under which a very special birthday dinner was served.

2. Such a framework employed to provide shade, especially over a patio.

Translations

Further reading

• Pergola in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• polegar

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?r?ola]
• Rhymes: -ola

Noun

pergola f

1. pergola

Further reading

• pergola in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• pergola in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Finnish

Noun

pergola

1. pergola

Declension

Italian

Etymology

From Latin pergula.

Noun

pergola f (plural pergole)

1. pergola
2. (heraldry) pall

Synonyms

• pergolato

Descendants

• ? English: pergola

Anagrams

• pargole, plagerò, pregalo