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grippe

noun
/ɡɹɪp/

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.

  1. derived from *gʰreyb-✻
  2. derived from *grīpaną✻
  3. derived from *grīpan✻
  4. borrowed from grippe

Definitions

  1. Influenza, the flu.

    • These other germs are the cause of colds and coughs and grippes.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for grippe. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA