Meaning and Origin
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Origin and Meaning of Trellis
User Submitted Origins
English
80%
Scandinavian
20%
International Interest
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
noun Trel"lis
A structure or frame of crossbarred work, or latticework, used for various purposes, as for screens or for supporting plants.
Etymology: OE. relis, F. treillis, fr. treille vine arbor, fr. L. tricla triclea triclia, a bower, arbor, summer house
Other Dictionary Sources
- Latticework used to support climbing plants
- Train on a trellis, as of a vine
Wiktionary
From Middle English trelis, from Anglo-Norman treslis, from Old French treille (“arbor”), from Latin trichila (“arbor", "summer house”)
- An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area.
- An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants.
- (computing theory) 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.