pergola
See also: pérgola and Pergola
English
WOTD – 18 December 2012, 18 December 2014
A pergola.
Alternative forms
- pergolo (dated)
- pergula
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian pergola, from Latin pergula.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɜːɡələ/
Audio (AU) (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, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World:
- 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.
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- Such a framework employed to provide shade, especially over a patio.
Translations
framework
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Further reading
Pergola in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- polegar
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpɛrɡola]
- Rhymes: -ola
Noun
pergola f
- pergola
Further reading
- pergola in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- pergola in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Finnish
Etymology
From Italian pergola.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈperɡolɑ/, [ˈpe̞rɡo̞lɑ]
- Rhymes: -erɡolɑ
- Syllabification(key): per‧go‧la
Noun
pergola
- pergola
Declension
| Inflection of pergola (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | pergola | pergolat | |
| genitive | pergolan | pergoloiden pergoloitten | |
| partitive | pergolaa | pergoloita | |
| illative | pergolaan | pergoloihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | pergola | pergolat | |
| accusative | nom. | pergola | pergolat |
| gen. | pergolan | ||
| genitive | pergolan | pergoloiden pergoloitten pergolainrare | |
| partitive | pergolaa | pergoloita | |
| inessive | pergolassa | pergoloissa | |
| elative | pergolasta | pergoloista | |
| illative | pergolaan | pergoloihin | |
| adessive | pergolalla | pergoloilla | |
| ablative | pergolalta | pergoloilta | |
| allative | pergolalle | pergoloille | |
| essive | pergolana | pergoloina | |
| translative | pergolaksi | pergoloiksi | |
| instructive | — | pergoloin | |
| abessive | pergolatta | pergoloitta | |
| comitative | — | pergoloineen | |
| Possessive forms of pergola (type kulkija) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | pergolani | pergolamme |
| 2nd person | pergolasi | pergolanne |
| 3rd person | pergolansa | |
Italian
Etymology
From Latin pergula.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /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