trellis
pronunciation
How to pronounce trellis in British English:
UK [ˈtrelɪs]
How to pronounce trellis in American English:
US [ˈtrɛlɪs]
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- Noun:
- latticework used to support climbing plants
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- Verb:
- train on a trellis, as of a vine
Word Origin
- trellis
- trellis: see three
- trellis (n.)
- late 14c., "lattice, grating," from Old French trelis, trellis "trellis, fence," originally "sackcloth," from Vulgar Latin *trilicius, from Latin trilicis, genitive of trilix "having three threads, triple-twilled," from tri- (see tri-) + licium "thread." Sense extended in Old French to things "woven" of iron, etc., which brought on influence of Old French treille "vine trellis," perhaps from Latin trichila "bower, arbor," which is apparently from Latin triclinium "couch extending round three sides of a table" (for reclining on at meals). Meaning "lattice used to support growing vines" is from 1510s. As a verb, c. 1400. Related: Trellised.
Example
- 1. Grape trellis hopes that his particular emotions .
- 2. As they passed the trellis with the banksia roses they spotted col. lei and hsu man-li emerging from a grove and hurrying towards the funeral hall .
- 3. And an uzi and tommy gun had been mounted on a flowered trellis on the stage .
- 4. A trellis on which ornamental shrub or fruit tree is trained to grow flat .
- 5. It was a lovely spring day and the rose vine on the trellis was turning green .