# grille
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French grille.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡɹɪl/
* Rhymes: -ɪl
* Homophone: grill

### Noun

grille (plural grilles)
* Alternative form of grill (only in the senses of "grating over opening", "grating on the front of a vehicle", and "window divider")
** 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC: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.

#### Derived terms

* grilled
* grillework

### Anagrams

* Giller

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡʁij/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio (Paris):(file)

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

grille f (plural grilles)
* bars; railings; rack; grate
    grille de fenêtre ― window bars
    grille d’un fourneau ― oven rack
    grilles d’une prison ― prison bars
    La grille du barbecue est pleine de graisse de saucisses.The barbecue grate is covered in grease from the sausages.
* gate (with bars)
    À huit heures et quart, on ferme la grille d’entrée de l’école.At 8:15, we close the school’s entrance gate.
* grid
    grilles de sudoku ― sudoku grids
    grille de mots croisés ― crossword grid
    Ci-joint la grille d’évaluation. ― Attachment: assessment grid.

##### Derived terms

* gril
* grillade
* grillage
* grille de commande
* grille de départ
* grille d’arrêt
* grille d’eau
* griller
* grilleur
* grilloir

##### Descendants

* → English: grille, grill
* → Italian: griglia

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

grille
* inflection of griller:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “grille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

grille
* inflection of grillen:
** first-person singular present
** first/third-person singular subjunctive I
** 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
* to grill

#### Conjugation
## Middle English
### Etymology

From Old English grel (“harsh”). Compare German grell (“lurid, shrill”).

### Adjective

grille
* 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,(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### 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)
* to grill (food, in a grill)
* (figuratively) to grill (subject someone to intense questioning)

#### Related terms

* grill

### References

* “grille” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Spanish
### Verb

grille
* inflection of grillar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative