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Parra (Hebrew: גפן) is a Spanish, Portuguese, and also Jewish surname, meaning grapevine or trellis, [1] for example, a pergola.It is taken from the word meaning latticework and the vines raised on it.
The word espalier is French, coming from the Italian spalliera, meaning "something to rest the shoulder (spalla) against." [2] During the 17th century, the word initially referred only to the actual trellis or frame on which such a plant was trained to grow, but over time it has come to be used to describe both the practice and the plants themselves.
The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...
Veranda, as used in the United Kingdom and France, was brought by the British from India (Hindi: बरामदा, Urdu: برآمدہ).While the exact origin of the word is unknown, scholars suggest that the word may have originated in India or may have been adopted from the Portuguese [citation needed] and spread further to the British and French colonists. [6]
Trellis in the courtyard of the Wernberg monastery, Wernberg, Carinthia, Austria. A trellis (treillage) is an architectural structure, usually made from an open framework or lattice of interwoven or intersecting pieces of wood, bamboo or metal that is normally made to support and display climbing plants, especially shrubs. [1]
Trellis (graph), a special kind of graph used in computer science; Trellis chart, a series or grid of small similar graphics or charts, allowing them to be easily compared; Trellis modulation or trellis coded modulation, in telecommunications; Trellis quantization, a method of improving data compression, often used in lossy video compression
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The name Trello is derived from the word trellis, which had been a code name for the project at its early stages. [10] Trello was released at a TechCrunch event by Fog Creek founder Joel Spolsky. [11] In September 2011 Wired magazine named the application one of "The 7 Coolest Startups You Haven't Heard of Yet". [12]