pergola (n.)

latticework structure for climbing plants, 1670s, from Italian pergola, from Latin pergula "school, lecture room; projecting roof; shed, booth; vine arbor," a word of uncertain origin; perhaps from pergere "to come forward."

also from 1670s

Trends of pergola

adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. Ngrams are probably unreliable.

More to Explore

arbor

c. 1300, herber, "herb garden, pleasure garden," from Old French erbier "field, meadow; kitchen garden," from Latin herba "grass, herb" (see herb). Later "a grassy plot" (mid-14c., a sense also in Old French), "shaded nook, bower formed by intertwining of trees, shrubs, or vines"

bower

Old English bur "room, hut, dwelling, chamber," from Proto-Germanic *bowan (source also of Old Norse bur "chamber," Swedish bur "cage," Old Danish both "dwelling, stall," Old Saxon bur "a house; a cage," Old High German bur "dwelling, chamber," buan "to dwell," German Vogelbauer

dilettante

1733, "an admirer of a fine art, literature, science, etc., one who cultivates an art or literature casually and for amusement," a borrowing of Italian dilettante "lover of music or painting," from dilettare "to delight," from Latin delectare "to allure, delight, charm, please,"

beam

Old English beam, "living tree," but by late 10c. also "rafter, post, ship's timber," from Proto-Germanic *baumaz "tree" (source also of Old Frisian bam "tree, gallows, beam," Middle Dutch boom, Old High German boum, German Baum "tree," and perhaps also (with unexplained sound ch

shadow

Middle English shadwe, from Old English sceadwe, sceaduwe "shade, the effect of interception of sunlight; dark image cast by someone or something when interposed between an object and a source of light," oblique cases ("to the," "from the," "of the," "in the") of sceadu (see shad

preliminary

"preceding and leading up to something more important," 1660s, from French préliminaire and directly from Medieval Latin praeliminaris, from Latin prae "before" (see pre-) + limen (genitive liminis) "threshold" (see limit (n.)). A word that arose in reference to painstaking diplo

dapper

mid-15c., "elegant, neat, trim," from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German dapper "bold, strong, sturdy," later "quick, nimble," from Proto-Germanic *dapraz (source also of Old High German tapfar "heavy," German tapfer "brave"), perhaps with ironical shift of meaning, from PIE root

culture

mid-15c., "the tilling of land, act of preparing the earth for crops," from Latin cultura "a cultivating, agriculture," figuratively "care, culture, an honoring," from past participle stem of colere "to tend, guard; to till, cultivate" (see colony). Meaning "the cultivation or re

point

c. 1200, pointe, "minute amount, single item in a whole; sharp end of a sword, etc.," a merger of two words, both ultimately from Latin pungere "to prick, pierce," from a nasalized form of PIE root *peuk- "to prick." The Latin neuter past participle punctum was used as a noun, me

skate

"type of flat, cartilaginous fish, a kind of ray," mid-14c., scate, in reference to the common European skate, from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse skata "skate," Danish skade, Faeroese skøta, a word of unknown origin. All skates are rays, but all rays are not called ska

Share pergola

‘cite’

Page URL:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/pergola

HTML Link:

<a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/pergola">Etymology of pergola by etymonline</a>

APA style:

Harper, D. (n.d.). Etymology of pergola. Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved $(datetime), from https://www.etymonline.com/word/pergola

Chicago style:

Harper Douglas, “Etymology of pergola,” Online Etymology Dictionary, accessed $(datetime), https://www.etymonline.com/word/pergola.

MLA style:

Harper, Douglas. “Etymology of pergola.” Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com/word/pergola. Accessed $(datetimeMla).

IEEE style:

D. Harper. “Etymology of pergola.” Online Etymology Dictionary. https://www.etymonline.com/word/pergola (accessed $(datetime)).

updated on March 31, 2020

Remove ads >

Dictionary entries near pergola

performer

perfume

perfunctory

perfuse

perfusion

pergola

perhaps

peri

peri-

perianth

pericarditis