grippen.

/ɡrip/

Forms: Also (anglicized) grip.

Etymology: French, verbal noun < gripper to seize.

= influenza n.

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influenza1743

grippe1775

lightning catarrh1836

flu1839

Spanish influenza1890

St. Kilda cold1897

Spanish flu1918

Asian flu1957

Asian influenza1957

Mao flu1968

Asian contagion1997

1775 J. Jekyll Let. 12 Dec. in Corr. (1894) 64 An epidemic cold seems to have spread itself from London to Barcelona. In passing through this kingdom [sc. France], it has obtained the name of ‘grippe’—a term significant enough from the nature of its attack on the throat.

1803 T. Campbell Let. 27 Mar. in Life & Lett. (1849) I. 425 John has been dubbed Dr. Leyden, and the influenza has been called La grippe.

1834 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 193 The epidemic of 1803–4 (known by the name of grippe).

1890 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) II. 441 Four of the weans have had the grippe.

1891 Boston Daily Globe 24 Mar. 5/1 The grip is with us again... This year the grip seems to have started in Chicago.

Derivatives

grippé adj.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adjective] > influenza

influenzal1803

influenzaed1836

influenzacized1849

influenzic1887

grippé1890

gripped1892

'flu-like1941

1890 W. Bateson Let. 16 Jan. in B. Bateson W. Bateson (1928) 40 I am glad to hear that you were so slightly ‘grippé’ after all.

1933 J. Joyce Let. 18 Oct. (1966) III. 288 I..have to put it off, being slightly grippé.

gripped adj. affected with the ‘grippe’.

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