different between jalouse vs jalousie

English

Etymology

From Scots jalouse, from Old French jalouser. The sense "to be jealous of" came about as a misunderstanding by southern writers, from the similarity to jealousy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d????lu?z/

Verb

jalouse (third-person singular simple present jalouses, present participle jalousing, simple past and past participle jaloused)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To suspect.
2. (transitive) To be jealous of.
   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 18

     When my two sisters (these two bitches, O Commander of the Faithful!) saw me by the side of my young lover they jaloused me on his account and were wroth and plotted mischief against me.

Anagrams

• jealous

French

Adjective

jalouse

1. feminine singular of jaloux

Verb

jalouse

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

Scots

Etymology

From Old French jalouser (“to be jealous of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d????lu?z/

Verb

jalouse (third-person singular present jalouses, present participle jalousin, past jaloused, past participle jaloused)

1. to guess, suspect, infer, be suspicious of, to have doubts or suspicions about, surmise

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French jalousie. Doublet of jealousy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?æl?si?/

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.
3. A pastry with the upper side sliced before final baking to resemble a wooden slatted blind.

Translations

See also

• blind
• curtain

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.lu.zi/
• Rhymes: -i

Etymology 1

From jaloux +? -ie, 12th c.

Noun

jalousie f (plural jalousies)

1. jealousy

Derived terms

• vert de jalousie

Etymology 2

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

Noun

jalousie f (plural jalousies)

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

   Synonym: moucharabieh

Descendants

• ? Czech: žaluzie
• ? Danish: jalousi
• ? Dutch: jaloezie
• ? English: jalousie
• ? German: Jalousie
• ? Polish: ?aluzja
• ? Russian: ??????? (žaljuzí)
• ? Turkish: jaluzi

Further reading

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

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 ????? (zêlos, “envy, lust, rivalry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???lu?si?(?)/, /?d??lusi?(?)/, /?d??l?si?(?)/

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

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

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

jalousie f (plural jalousies)

1. (Jersey) sweet william

Synonyms

• girofliée valine