English Explanatory Dictionary

grippe

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Influenza, the flu.

Pronunciation

/ɡɹɪp/

Word forms

grippe grippes 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.

Related words

catarrh cold Spanish fever

Derived words

grippal grippy
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