# grippe

Pronunciation: say "GRIP" /ɡɹɪp/

## Noun

1. Influenza, the contagious viral illness of the airways commonly known as the flu. *(dated)*
   - Simple: A catching illness that gives you fever, aches, and a cough, and spreads easily.
   - _The grippe swept through the boarding house, leaving half the residents bedridden._
   - _He caught the grippe shortly after the holidays and missed three weeks of work._

## Origin

Borrowed from French grippe, from gripper ("to seize, snatch"), which traces back through Frankish and Proto-Germanic to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to grab, to grasp." From French it was borrowed into many languages around the world.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/grippe (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).