different between pergola vs summerhouse

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

English

Alternative forms

• summer house, summer-house

Etymology

From Middle English somer-hous, from Old English sumerh?s, sumorh?s, equivalent to summer +? house. Compare Dutch zomerhuis, German Sommerhaus.

Noun

summerhouse (plural summerhouses)

1. A house owned not as a primary residence and used as vacation home during warm weather months of the year.
2. An outbuilding in a garden where the owners can relax in warm weather.

Translations

See also

• country house
• dacha
• holiday home
• villa
• winterhouse

References

• “summerhouse”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.