grippe

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/

Noun

grippe (uncountable)

1. (pathology) Influenza, the flu. [from 18 c.]
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter IV, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), 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!"

Anagrams

• gipper

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁip/

• Audio

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• Homophones: grippes, grippent

Verb

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

Noun

grippe f (plural grippes)

1. influenza; flu

Further reading

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

Noun

grippe f (plural grippes)

1. (Jersey, pathology) flu

Noun

grippe f (plural grippes)

1. Obsolete spelling of gripe

Verb

grippe

1. Obsolete spelling of gripe