muntin

English

Etymology

Middle English mountaunt, from Old French montant, present participle of monter (“to put up”).

Noun

muntin (plural muntins)

(architecture) One of the separators between panes of glass in a composite window.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 174:
  He looked for a bell but there were just the wires hanging from a hole so he tapped on the glass of the sidelights. They gave soft and soundless in their lead muntins.

Synonyms

glazing bar

Hyponyms

mullion (vertical)

Derived terms

muntined

Translations

window pane separator

Finnish: jakopuite, välipuite
French: croisillon (fr) m
Galician: billote m
German: Sprosse (de) f, Fenstersprosse f, Mittelpfosten m
Italian: inglesina f
Swedish: spröjs (sv) c

Catalan

Verb

muntin

third-person plural present subjunctive form of muntar
third-person plural imperative form of muntar

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