Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

trellis

/ˈtɹɛlɪs/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.59 in modern English

Syllables: trel-lis
IPA: /ˈtɹɛlɪs/

7

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.

noun

An outdoor garden frame that can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants.

noun

A kind of graph, used in communication theory and encryption, whose nodes are ordered into vertical slices by time, with each node at each time connected to at least one node at an earlier and at least one node at a later time.

verb

To train or arrange (plants) so that they grow against a trellis.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"It was a very warm evening; and the moonlight turned the Thames to an unbroken mirror of silver, and gave to the soft shadows of the shrubs, and the creepers that wound among the trellises, an appearance almost Italian."
"to trellis vines"

Etymology

From Middle English trelis, from Anglo-Norman treslis, from Old French treille (“arbor”), from Latin trichila (“arbor", "summer house”). However, see OED which claims another Old French form referring to sackcloth, from Vulgar Latin.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: trelis, treslis, treille, trichila, -

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

trellises (plural) trellises (present, singular) trellising (participle, present) trellised (participle, past) trellised (past)

Derived Forms

trellised trellislike trelliswork trellissing

Phrases

trellis drainage trellis frame trellis modulation trellis quantization trellis rust

Synonyms

treillage

Rhymes With

jealous fellas zealous marcellus overzealous pinellas bruxelles belous mcnellis mcnelis

Questions

How do you pronounce trellis?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɹɛlɪs/.
What does trellis mean?: An outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.
Where does trellis come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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