Gips

See also: gips

German

Alternative forms

• Gyps (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle High German gips, from late Old High German gips, from Proto-West Germanic *gips.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɪps/

• Audio:

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Noun

Gips m (strong, genitive Gipses, plural Gipse)

1. gypsum
2. Short for Gipsverband (“cast for a broken bone”).

   Er hat einen Gips angelegt bekommen. ― He got a cast applied.

Declension

Declension of Gips [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Gips	die	Gipse
genitive	eines	des	Gipses	der	Gipse
dative	einem	dem	Gips, Gipse1	den	Gipsen
accusative	einen	den	Gips	die	Gipse

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• gipsen
• Gipskraut
• Gipsverband

 

Descendants

• → Romanian: ghips
• → Russian: гипс (gips) (see there for further descendants)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: гипс

  Latin script: gips

Further reading

• “Gips” in Duden online
• “Gips” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache