trellis

Meaning

Noun

1. An outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.
2. An outdoor garden frame that can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants.
3. 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.

Synonyms

lattice

grate

grid

grating

treillage

railing

pergola

stick

shelf

arbor

brace

brace up

buttress

canopy

carry

endorse

espalier

frame

framework

grill

grille

indorse

latticed

latticework

mesh

netting

patronage

prop

prop up

reinforce

rest

reward

screen

second

2nd

shack

shed

spank

sponsor

stand

stand by

subsidise

subsidize

subvention

support

trelliswork

truss

undergird

underlay

underpin

underwrite

Translations

graticcio

treillis

enrejado

traliccio

Spalier

treillage

espaldar

🔙

traliewerk

Gitter

grillage

treille

pergolato

latwerk

τοποθετώ δικτυωτό

καφασωτό

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɹɛlɪs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: trelis

In summary

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.