# pergola
## English
### Alternative forms

* pergolo (dated)
* pergula

### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pergola, from Latin pergula.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈpɜːɡələ/
* (General Australian) IPA: /pɜːˈɡɐʉlə/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Noun

pergola (plural pergolas or pergole)
* A framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants.
** 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:The thick vegetation met overhead, interlacing into a natural pergola, and through this tunnel of verdure in a golden twilight flowed the green, pellucid river, beautiful in itself, but marvelous from the strange tints thrown by the vivid light from above filtered and tempered in its fall.
** 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, published 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.
* 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: [ˈpɛrɡola]
* Rhymes: -ola

### Noun

pergola f
* pergola

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “pergola”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “pergola”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Danish
### Noun

pergola c (singular definite pergolaen, plural indefinite pergolaer)
* pergola

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “pergola” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Finnish
### Etymology

From Italian pergola.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈperɡolɑ/, [ˈpe̞rɡo̞lɑ̝]
* Rhymes: -erɡolɑ
* Syllabification: per‧go‧la

### Noun

pergola
* pergola

#### Declension

Possessive forms of pergola (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) :

### Further reading

* “pergola”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin pergula.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɛr.ɡo.la/
* Rhymes: -ɛrɡola
* Hyphenation: pèr‧go‧la

### Noun

pergola f (plural pergole)
* pergola
* (heraldry) pall

#### Synonyms

* pergolato

#### Descendants

* → English: pergola
* → Portuguese: pérgola, pérgula
* → Spanish: pérgola

### Anagrams

* pargole, plagerò, pregalo

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pergola.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɛrˈɡɔla/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔla
* Syllabification: per‧go‧la

### Noun

pergola f
* pergola (framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* pergola in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* pergola in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* pergola in PWN's encyclopedia