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6 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease
originBorrowed 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0