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croup

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Etymology 1

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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 crupper, doublet of croupe, group, and crop.

Noun

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croup (plural croups)

  2. The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
    Alternative form: croupe
    Coordinate terms: crupper, rump, buttocks
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Etymology 2

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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. In the medical sense introduced by Edinburgh physician Francis Home.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete outside dialects) To croak, make a hoarse noise.
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Noun

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croup (uncountable)

  2. (pathology) An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.
    • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
      Yes; I've nursed five children and buried three; and the one I loved the best of all, and tended through croup, and teething, and measles, and hooping-cough, and brought up with foreign masters, regardless of expense, […] .
    • 1897, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “[Pudd’nhead Wilson] Chapter”, in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 22:
      Percy Northumberland Driscoll […] had had children around his hearthstone; but they were attacked in detail by measles, croup and scarlet fever, and this had given the doctor a chance with his effective antediluvian methods; so the cradles were empty.
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  • There are two forms of croup, one caused by the diphtheria bacterium which may be deadly if not cured, and the other, less severe, caused by viruses. The viral form was formerly called pseudocroup. Vaccines and antibiotics have nearly eradicated the diphtheritic form from developed countries, and now croup chiefly refers to the viral form.
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Middle English

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Noun

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croup

  1. alternative form of croupe

Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English croup.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkɾup/ [ˈkɾup]
  • Rhymes: -up
  • Syllabification: croup

Noun

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croup m (plural croups)

  1. (pathology) alternative spelling of crup (croup) [late 18th c.]

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

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  • “croup”, in Diccionario histórico de la lengua española [Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 31 January 2018, →ISSN
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