jalousie
Appearance
See also: Jalousie
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French jalousie. Doublet of jealousy.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]jalousie (plural jalousies)
- (naval architecture) A component in a ventilation system.
- Upward sloping window slats which form a blind or shutter, allowing light and air in but excluding rain and direct sun.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
- A small lofty room, with its window wide open, and the wooden jalousie-blinds closed, so that the dark night only showed in slight horizontal lines of black, alternating with their broad lines of stone colour.
- 2014, Kate Pullinger, The Last Time I Saw Jane:
- Nowhere the glitter of a glass casement; Venetian blinds, jalousies, closed every window, and rooms projected in all directions to catch the luxury of a through-draft of air.
- A pastry with the upper side sliced before final baking to resemble a wooden slatted blind.
Translations
[edit]window slats which form a blind or shutter
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See also
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]jalousie f (plural jalousies)
- jealousy
- (botany) edible amaranth (Amaranthus tricolor)
- Synonyms: amarante tricolore, fleur de jalousie
- (botany) sweet william (Dianthus barbatus)
- Synonyms: bouquet parfait, bouquet tout fait, œillet barbu, œillet de poète
- (agriculture) a type of pear (fruit)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Italian gelosia, 15th c., from the same root.
Noun
[edit]jalousie f (plural jalousies)
- Venetian blind
- (historical) mashrabiyya, latticework screen
- Synonym: moucharabieh
Descendants
[edit]- → Czech: žaluzie
- → Danish: jalousi
- → Dutch: jaloezie
- → English: jalousie
- → German: Jalousie
- → Polish: żaluzja
- → Russian: жалюзи́ (žaljuzí)
- → Estonian: žalusii
- → Azerbaijani: jalüz
- → Swedish: jalusi
- → Turkish: jaluzi
Further reading
[edit]- “jalousie” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “jalousie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- jelousye, gelusie, jalousye, jaloucie, gelusye, gelosye, jelosye, gelosesye, jelowsy, gelesye, gelousy, jelosie
Etymology
[edit]From Old French jalousie, derived from jalous, from Late Latin zelosus (“full of love and sympathy”), derived from Latin zelus (“zealous”), from Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos, “envy, lust, rivalry”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]jalousie (plural jelousies)
- Jealousness or jealousy in a relationship or marriage.
- Passion; romantic or sexual desire.
- zealousness, devotion, belief.
- (rare) distrust, wrath, ire
- (rare) care, wrath, ire
- (rare) paranoia, suspecting
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “jelǒusī(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-18.
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
[edit]jalousie f (plural jalousies)
Synonyms
[edit]- girofliée valine
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