grippe
grippe · grippes
Influenza, the fluInfluenza, the flu.
/ɡɹɪp/
Meaning
1 senses(countable, dated, uncountable)Influenza, the flu.
More definitions
- an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease
Origin
Borrowed from French grippe, from gripper (“to seize, snatch”), from Frankish *grīpan, froBorrowed 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.
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Forms
plural: grippesSynonyms
2 synonymsWord family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable