grippe

• grip

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.

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

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!"

• grippy

• catarrh
• cold
• Spanish fever

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• gipper

grippe

1. partitive plural of gripp

From gripper.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁip/

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• Homophones: grippes, grippent

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?

• grippe aviaire
• grippe porcine
• prendre en grippe

grippe

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

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

grippe

1. Alternative form of gripe (“grip”)

grippe

1. Alternative form of gripe (“griffin”)

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

• gryppe, grip, grype

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrip(ə)/, /ˈɡriːp(ə)/

grippe (plural grippes)

1. A trench or indentation for drainage.

• English: grip, gripe

• “grī̆p(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-21.

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grippe f (plural grippes)

1. (Jersey, pathology) flu

grippe f (plural grippes)

1. Obsolete spelling of gripe

grippe

1. Obsolete spelling of gripe