pergola

• pergolo (dated)
• pergula

Borrowed from Italian pergola, from Latin pergula.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜːɡələ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /pɜːˈɡɐʉlə/

• Audio (General Australian):

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pergola (plural pergolas or pergole)

1. A framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     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.

2. Such a framework employed to provide shade, especially over a patio.

• Pergola in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• polegar

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛrɡola]
• Rhymes: -ola

pergola f

1. pergola

• “pergola”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “pergola”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

pergola c (singular definite pergolaen, plural indefinite pergolaer)

1. pergola

• “pergola” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Italian pergola.

• IPA^(key): /ˈperɡolɑ/, [ˈpe̞rɡo̞lɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -erɡolɑ
• Syllabification^(key): per‧go‧la
• Hyphenation^(key): per‧go‧la

pergola

1. pergola

• “pergola”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

From Latin pergula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛr.ɡo.la/
• Rhymes: -ɛrɡola
• Hyphenation: pèr‧go‧la

pergola f (plural pergole)

1. pergola
2. (heraldry) pall

• pergolato

• → English: pergola
• → Portuguese: pérgola, pérgula
• → Spanish: pérgola

• pargole, plagerò, pregalo

Borrowed from Italian pergola.

• IPA^(key): /pɛrˈɡɔ.la/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Syllabification: per‧go‧la

pergola f

1. pergola (framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants)

• pergola in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pergola in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• pergola in PWN's encyclopedia