grippe
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French grippe, from gripper (“to seize, snatch”), from Frankish *grīpan, from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreyb- (“to grab, to grasp”). Borrowed from French into many languages of the world. More at gripe.
Pronunciation
Noun
grippe (countable and uncountable, plural grippes)
- (pathology, dated) Influenza, the flu. [from 18 c.]
- 1885, Public Health, Michigan, volume 2, page 39:
- These other germs are the cause of colds and coughs and grippes.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IV, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- "Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: "Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir!"
Derived terms
Translations
flu — see flu
See also
Further reading
influenza on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
Estonian
Noun
grippe
French
Etymology
From gripper.
Pronunciation
Noun
grippe f (plural grippes)
- influenza; flu
- Sophie a eu une mauvaise grippe l’hiver dernier.
- Sophie had a bad case of the flu last winter.
- Comment savoir si vous avez la grippe ou un rhume?
- How do you know if you have the flu or a cold?
Derived terms
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: grip
- → Albanian: grip
- → Alemannic German: Grippi
- → Armenian: գրիպ (grip)
- → Azerbaijani: qrip
- → Belarusian: грып (hryp)
- → Bulgarian: грип (grip)
- → Catalan: grip
- → Dutch: griep
- Afrikaans: griep
- → English: grippe
- → Esperanto: gripo
- → Estonian: gripp
- → Galician: gripe
- → Georgian: გრიპი (griṗi)
- → German: Grippe
- → Greek: γρίπη (grípi) and Greek dialect of Cyprus (Cypriot Greek): γρίππη (pronounced with a geminate /ph:/)
- → Kildin Sami: грӣбп (grībp)
- → Kyrgyz: грипп (gripp)
- → Ladino: grip
- → Latvian: gripa
- → Lithuanian: gripas
- → Luxembourgish: Gripp
- → Macedonian: грип (grip)
- → Norman: grippe (possibly also descended from Old French)
- → Polish: grypa
- → Portuguese: gripe
- → Romanian: gripă
- → Russian: грипп (gripp)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovene: gripa
- → Spanish: gripe, gripa (Colombia, Mexico)
- → Tajik: грипп (gripp)
- → Tatar: грипп (gripp)
- → Turkish: grip
- → Laz: გრიფი (gripi)
- → Turkmen: grip
- → Ukrainian: грип (hryp)
- → Uzbek: gripp
Verb
grippe
- inflection of gripper:
Further reading
- “grippe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
grippe
- Alternative form of gripe (“grip”)
Etymology 2
Noun
grippe
- Alternative form of gripe (“griffin”)
Etymology 3
From Old English grēp, grēpe, from Proto-Germanic *grōpiz. Some forms are influenced by Old English grype.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
grippe (plural grippes)
- A trench or indentation for drainage.
Descendants
References
- “grī̆p(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-21.
Norman
Etymology
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Noun
grippe f (plural grippes)
Portuguese
Noun
grippe f (plural grippes)
Verb
grippe
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