lattice

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A flat panel constructed with widely-spaced crossed thin strips of wood or other material, commonly used as a garden trellis.

   It was now in ruin: the deer had climbed the broken palings, and reposed among the flowers; grass grew on the threshold, and the swinging lattice creaking to the wind, gave signal of utter desertion.

2. 2
   verb

   To make a lattice of.

   To lattice timbers.

3. 3
   verb

   To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice.

   To lattice a window.

4. 4
   noun

   framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal

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Simplified etymology

Lattice entered Middle English from Old French lattis, derived from latte, “lath,” a word of Germanic origin. It originally denoted a structure made from laths, and its characteristic crisscross arrangement later gave rise to scientific uses.

From Middle English latis, from Middle French lattis (“lathing”), from Old French lattis, from latte (“a lath”), from Frankish *lattā, *lattu (“a lath”), from Proto-Germanic *lattǭ, *lattō, *laþþō (“board; plank; ledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)latn-, *(s)lat- (“beam; log”). Cognate with Old High German latta (“lath”), (German Latte), Old English lætt (“lath”), Middle Low German lāde (“plank, counter, sales counter”), German Laden (“shop”). More at lath.

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