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Grippe.

flu; influenza; grippe.

6 characters2 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɡʁɪpə/
  1. flu; influenza; grippe.

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from French grippe (“influenza”), from gripper (“to seize, snatch”), from Frankish *grīpan, from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną, whence German greifen. Eventually from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreyb- (“to grab, to grasp”).

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