German

Noun

Grille f ‎(genitive Grille, plural Grillen)

1. cricket (insect of the family Gryllidae)
2. (archaic) hobby

Declension

See also

• Heimchen
• Heuschrecke

English

Noun

grille ‎(plural grilles)

1. Alternative form of grill (rack, vehicle cover, etc.)
   • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter I”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:

     The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

French

Etymology

From Old French greille < Latin crāticula.

Pronunciation

Noun

grille f ‎(plural grilles)

1. gate
   • À huit heures et quart, on ferme la grille d’entrée de l’école.

     At eight o’ clock, we close the school’s entrance gate.

2. grate
   • La grille du barbecue est pleine de graisse de saucisses.

     The barbecue grate is covered in grease from the sausages.

3. grid
   • Ci-joint la grille d’évaluation.

     Attachment: assessment grid.

Verb

grille

1. first-person singular present indicative of griller
2. third-person singular present indicative of griller
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of griller
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of griller
5. second-person singular imperative of griller

Derived terms

• grille-pain

German

Verb

grille

1. First-person singular present of grillen.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of grillen.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of grillen.
4. Imperative singular of grillen.

Limburgish

Etymology

Borrowing from Dutch grillen, itself borrowed from English grill. Displaced older steinreustere.

Alternative forms

• chrèlle
• chrille
• gkrèlle
• gkrille
• grèlle

Noun

grille n

1. grilling

Verb

grille

1. to grill

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

grille ‎(imperative grill, present tense griller, passive grilles, simple past and past participle grilla or grillet, present participle grillende)

1. to grill (food, in a grill)
2. (figuratively) to grill (subject someone to intense questioning)

Related terms

• grill

References

• “grille” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Spanish

Verb

grille

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of grillar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of grillar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of grillar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of grillar.