grippe

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   influenza; a feverish respiratory illness (dated)

   Half the village was laid low by the grippe that winter.

From French grippe ('influenza'), from gripper ('to seize, grip'), of Germanic origin, akin to Frankish *grīpan ('to seize'); the disease was named for the way it 'seizes' the sufferer.

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