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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.

grippe (countable and uncountable, plural grippes)

  1. (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!"

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grippe

  1. partitive plural of gripp

From gripper.

grippe f (plural grippes)

  1. 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?

grippe

  1. inflection of gripper:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

grippe

  1. Alternative form of gripe (grip)

grippe

  1. Alternative form of gripe (griffin)

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

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡrip(ə)/, /ˈɡriːp(ə)/

grippe (plural grippes)

  1. A trench or indentation for drainage.

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grippe f (plural grippes)

  1. (Jersey, pathology) flu

grippe f (plural grippes)

  1. Obsolete spelling of gripe.

grippe

  1. Obsolete spelling of gripe.