grippe

See also: Grippe and grippé

English

Alternative forms

• grip

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹɪp/
• Rhymes: -ɪp
• Homophone: grip

Noun

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!"

Derived terms

• grippy

Translations

flu — see flu

See also

• catarrh
• cold
• Spanish fever

Further reading

influenza on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• gipper

Estonian

Noun

grippe

1. partitive plural of gripp

French

Etymology

From gripper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁip/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: grippes, grippent

Noun

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?

Derived terms

• grippe aviaire
• grippe porcine
• prendre en grippe

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:

  Cyrillic script: грип

  Latin script: gripa

• → Slovene: gripa
• → Spanish: gripe, gripa
• → Tajik: грипп (gripp)
• → Tatar: грипп (gripp)
• → Turkish: grip
  • → Laz: გრიფი (gripi)
• → Turkmen: grip
• → Ukrainian: грип (hryp)
• → Uzbek: gripp

Verb

grippe

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

Further reading

• “grippe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

grippe

1. Alternative form of gripe (“grip”)

Etymology 2

Noun

grippe

1. 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

• gryppe, grip, grype

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrip(ə)/, /ˈɡriːp(ə)/

Noun

grippe (plural grippes)

1. A trench or indentation for drainage.

Descendants

• English: grip, gripe

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)

1. (Jersey, pathology) flu

Portuguese

Noun

grippe f (plural grippes)

1. Obsolete spelling of gripe.

Verb

grippe

1. Obsolete spelling of gripe.