croup

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɹuːp/
• Rhymes: -uːp

Etymology 1

From Middle English croupe, from Old French croupe (“rump, body”), from Old Norse kroppr (“body, trunk, mass”), from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, mass, heap, collection, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to curve, bend, crawl”). More at group, crop.

Noun

croup (plural croups)

1. The top of the rump of a horse.
   • Sir Walter Scott

     So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, / So light to the saddle before her he sprung.

Translations

top of the rump of a horse

• Finnish: lautaset (fi) pl

• Jèrriais: croupe f

Etymology 2

From Scots croup, croop (“the croup”), from Scots croup, crowp, croop (“to croak, speak hoarsely, murmur, complain”), from Old Scots crowp, crope, croap (“to call loudly, croak”), alteration of rowp, roup, roip, rope (“to cry, cry hoarsely, roop”), from Middle English roupen, ropen, from Old English hrōpan (“to shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōpaną (“to shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor- (“to caw, crow”). More at roop.

Verb

croup (third-person singular simple present croups, present participle crouping, simple past and past participle crouped)

1. (obsolete, except, dialectal) To croak, make a hoarse noise.

Noun

croup (uncountable)

1. (pathology) An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.

Derived terms

• croupous
• croupy

Translations

an infectious illness of the larynx

• Esperanto: krupo (eo)
• Finnish: kuristustauti
• German: Krupp (de) m, Kehlkopfdiphtherie (de) f

• Russian: круп (ru) (krup) m
• Turkish: krup (tr)

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• Spanish: garrotillo m, crup m