lintel

From Middle English lyntel, from Old French lintel, from Latin līmināris, from līmen (“threshold (bottommost part of a doorframe)”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪn.təl/
• Rhymes: -ɪntəl

lintel (plural lintels)

1. (architecture) A horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above.
   • 1915, W.S. Maugham, "Of Human Bondage":

     Athelny had told him that he lived in a house built by Inigo Jones; he had raved, as he raved over everything, over the balustrade of old oak; and when he came down to open the door for Philip he made him at once admire the elegant carving of the lintel.

• overslay
• superliminary

• jamb
• sill

• Lintel (architecture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “lintel” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

• lentil, tellin, tellin'

lintel m (oblique plural linteaus or linteax or lintiaus or lintiax or lintels, nominative singular linteaus or linteax or lintiaus or lintiax or lintels, nominative plural lintel)

1. lintel (beam)

• English: lintel (borrowed into Middle English)
• French: linteau

lintel m (plural lintéis)

1. sill (horizontal beam bearing the upright portion of a frame)