different between louver vs grille

English

Alternative forms

• loover (archaic)
• louvre (mainly UK)
• lover (obsolete)
• luffer

Etymology

From Old French lover.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: lo?o?v?, IPA^(key): /?lu?v?/
• (General American) enPR: lo?o?v?r, IPA^(key): /?lu?v?/

Noun

louver (plural louvers)

1. A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light. [from 14th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.10:

     But darknesse dred and daily night did hover / Through all the inner parts, wherein they dwelt; / Ne lightned was with window, nor with lover, / But with continuall candle-light […].

2. (chiefly in the plural) A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc. [from 16th c.]
3. Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation.

Derived terms

• louvered, louvred

Translations

See also

• jalousie

Anagrams

• Louvre, louvre, velour

French

Etymology

louve +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu.ve/

Verb

louver

1. (transitive) to drill a hole in a stone for the attachment of a wedge

Conjugation

Related terms

• louve

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French grille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l/
• Rhymes: -?l

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")

   • 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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ij/

Etymology 1

From Middle French grille, grisle, from Old French greille, graïlle, from earlier gradilie (end of 10th century), from Latin cr?ticula (or a Vulgar Latin graticula).

Noun

grille f (plural grilles)

1. gate

2. grate

3. grid

Derived terms

• gril
• grille de départ
• griller

Descendants

• ? English: grille
• ? Italian: griglia

Etymology 2

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

German

Verb

grille

1. inflection of grillen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Limburgish

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

Conjugation

Middle English

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,

Descendants

• English: gril

Norwegian Bokmål

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)

Related terms

• grill

References

• “grille” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Spanish

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.