grippe
SayGRIP/ɡɹɪp/
Pluralgrippes
- 1A catching illness that gives you fever, aches, and a cough, and spreads easily.
Like a bad cold, but much stronger and able to spread fast through a whole house.
Half the village came down with the grippe that winter.
These other germs are the cause of colds and coughs and grippes.
1885, Public Health, MichiganHere, grippes means cases of the flu.Note
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Origin
It comes from French grippe, from a word meaning "to seize." This came from an old Germanic word for grabbing or grasping.