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/

grippe (uncountable)

1. (pathology) Influenza, the flu. [from 18 c.]
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter IV, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     "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

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁip/

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• Homophones: grippes, grippent

grippe

1. first-person singular present indicative of gripper
2. third-person singular present indicative of gripper
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of gripper
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of gripper
5. second-person singular imperative of gripper

grippe f (plural grippes)

1. influenza; flu

• grippe aviaire
• grippe porcine

• 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
• → Estonian: gripp
• → Georgian: გრიპი (griṗi)
• → German: Grippe
• → Greek: γρίπη (grípi)
• → 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: грип

  Latin: grip

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

• “grippe” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old English gripe.

grippe

1. Alternative form of gripe (“grip”)

From Old French gripe.

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.

grippe f (plural grippes)

1. (Jersey, pathology) flu

grippe f (plural grippes)

1. Obsolete spelling of gripe

grippe

1. Obsolete spelling of gripe