grippe
/ɡɹɪp/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.46 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "These other germs are the cause of colds and coughs and grippes."
- ""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!""
- "[T]hat day was the only holiday I had all the time I was in camp - except when I had the ‘grippe’ and nearly pegged out."
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.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: grippe, *grīpan, *grīpaną, *gʰreyb-