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Grippe

//ɡɹɪp// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Influenza, the flu. countable, dated, uncountable

    "These other germs are the cause of colds and coughs and grippes."

  2. 2
    an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease wordnet

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.

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