Gruppe

See also: gruppe

Alemannic German

Alternative forms
  • Grubbe, Gruppè, Grupp, Grubb, (rare, mostly in compounds) Grubba

Etymology

Borrowed from French groupe, from Italian gruppo, groppo, from Vulgar Latin *cruppus, (cf. Renaissance Latin grupus), from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, group, body, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”).[1][2] Compare Bavarian Grubbm, German Gruppe, English group, Dutch groep, Yiddish גרופּע (grupe).

Noun

Gruppe f

  1. group

References
  1. Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Gruppe”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
  2. gruppo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

German

Alternative forms
  • Groupe (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French groupe, from Italian gruppo, groppo, from Vulgar Latin *cruppus, (cf. Renaissance Latin grupus), from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, group, body, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”).[1][2] Doublet of Kropf.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡʁʊpə/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

Gruppe f (genitive Gruppe, plural Gruppen, diminutive Grüppchen n or Grüpplein n)

  1. group [From late 17th c.]

Declension
Declension of Gruppe [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Gruppe die Gruppen
genitive einer der Gruppe der Gruppen
dative einer der Gruppe den Gruppen
accusative eine die Gruppe die Gruppen

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Danish: gruppe
  • → Estonian: grupp
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: gruppe
  • → Russian: группа (gruppa) (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Gruppe”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
  2. gruppo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Further reading
  • “Gruppe” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “Gruppe” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “Gruppe” in Duden online
  • Gruppe on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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