# grippe
## English
### 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: /ɡɹɪp/
* Rhymes: -ɪp
* Homophone: grip

### Noun

grippe (countable and uncountable, plural grippes)
* (pathology, dated) Influenza, the flu. [from 18th 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!"

#### Derived terms

* grippy

#### See also

* catarrh
* cold
* Spanish fever

#### Further reading

influenza on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* gipper

## Estonian
### Noun

grippe
* partitive plural of gripp

## French
### Etymology

From gripper.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡʁip/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: grippes, grippent

### Noun

grippe f (plural grippes)
* 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?

#### Derived terms

* grippe aviaire
* grippe porcine
* prendre en grippe

#### Descendants

* 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
* → Esperanto: gripo
* → Estonian: gripp
* → Galician: gripe
* → Georgian: გრიპი (griṗi)
* → German: Grippe
* → Greek: γρίπη (grípi) and Greek dialect of Cyprus (Cypriot Greek): γρίππη (pronounced with a geminate /ph:/)
* → Kildin Sami: грӣбп (grībp)
* → 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 script: грип
    Latin script: gripa
* → Slovene: gripa
* → Spanish: gripe, gripa (Colombia, Mexico)
* → Tajik: грипп (gripp)
* → Tatar: грипп (gripp)
* → Turkish: grip
** → Laz: გრიფი (gripi)
* → Turkmen: grip
* → Ukrainian: грип (hryp)
* → Uzbek: gripp

### Verb

grippe
* inflection of gripper:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

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

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

grippe
* Alternative form of gripe (“grip”)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

grippe
* Alternative form of gripe (“griffin”)

### Etymology 3

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

#### Alternative forms

* gryppe, grip, grype

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡrip(ə)/, /ˈɡriːp(ə)/

#### Noun

grippe (plural grippes)
* A trench or indentation for drainage.

##### Descendants

* English: grip, gripe

##### References

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

## Norman
### Etymology

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### Noun

grippe f (plural grippes)
* (Jersey, pathology) flu

## Portuguese
### Noun

grippe f (plural grippes)
* Obsolete spelling of gripe.

### Verb

grippe
* Obsolete spelling of gripe.