jalousie

Borrowed from French jalousie. Doublet of jealousy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒæləsiː/

jalousie (plural jalousies)

1. (naval architecture) A component in a ventilation system.
2. 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.

3. A pastry with the upper side sliced before final baking to resemble a wooden slatted blind.

• blind
• curtain

• IPA^(key): /ʒa.lu.zi/
• Rhymes: -i

From jaloux +‎ -ie, 12th c.

jalousie f (plural jalousies)

1. jealousy

Borrowed from Italian gelosia, 15th c., from the same root.

jalousie f (plural jalousies)

1. (historical) (latticework) screen
2. Venetian blind

• → Czech: žaluzie
• → Dutch: jaloezie
• → English: jalousie
• → German: Jalousie
• → Russian: жалюзи́ (žaljuzí)
• → Turkish: jaluzi

• “jalousie” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• jelousye, gelusie, jalousye, jaloucie, gelusye, gelosye, jelosye, gelosesye, jelowsy, gelesye, gelousy, jelosie

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”).

• IPA^(key): /dʒɛˈluːsiː(ə)/, /ˈdʒɛlusiː(ə)/, /ˈdʒɛləsiː(ə)/

jalousie (plural jelousies)

1. Jealousness or jealousy in a relationship or marriage.
2. Passion; romantic or sexual desire.
3. zealousness, devotion, belief.
4. (rare) distrust, wrath, ire
5. (rare) care, wrath, ire
6. (rare) paranoia, suspecting

• English: jealousy
• Scots: jealousy

• “jelǒusī(e (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-18.

jalousie f (plural jalousies)

1. (Jersey) sweet william

• girofliée valine