grippe
pronunciation
How to pronounce grippe in British English:
UK [grɪp]
How to pronounce grippe in American English:
US [grɪp]
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- Noun:
- an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease
Word Origin
- grippe (n.)
- "epidemic influenza," 1776, probably from French grippe "influenza," originally "seizure," verbal noun from gripper "to grasp, hook," from Frankish or another Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *gripanan (see grip (v.), gripe (v.)). Supposedly in reference to constriction of the throat felt by sufferers; the word spread through European languages after the influenza epidemic during the Russian occupation of Prussia in the Seven Years' War (c. 1760), and Russian chirpu, said to be imitative of the sound of the cough, is sometimes said to be the origin or inspiration for the word.
Example
- 1. What is the transmission way of the grippe ?
- 2. Just as he was recovering from his attack of grippe , pneumonia settled in .