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grippe

See also: Grippe and grippé

English

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Etymology

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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.

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grippe (countable and uncountable, plural grippes)

  1. (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!"

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Translations

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flu — see flu

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Further reading

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  influenza on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Noun

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grippe

  1. partitive plural of gripp

French

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Etymology

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From gripper.

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Noun

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grippe f (plural grippes)

  1. 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?

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Verb

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grippe

  1. inflection of gripper:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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grippe

  1. Alternative form of gripe (“grip”)

Etymology 2

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grippe

  1. Alternative form of gripe (“griffin”)

Etymology 3

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From Old English grēp, grēpe, from Proto-Germanic *grōpiz. Some forms are influenced by Old English grype.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡrip(ə)/, /ˈɡriːp(ə)/

Noun

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grippe (plural grippes)

  1. A trench or indentation for drainage.
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Norman

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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grippe f (plural grippes)

  1. (Jersey, pathology) flu

Portuguese

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grippe f (plural grippes)

  1. Obsolete spelling of gripe.

Verb

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grippe

  1. Obsolete spelling of gripe.
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