grappe
French
Etymology
From Middle French grappe, from Old French grappe, grape, crape (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), from graper, craper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 159: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value gem is not valid. See WT:LOL. origin, from Low Frankish *krappo (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *krappô, *krappą (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *grep- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, ebnd, twist”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (German Krapfe). More at cramp.
Pronunciation
Noun
grappe f (plural grappes)
Usage notes
When used to quantify a stated object, the singular form of that object is used, contrary to English.
- une grappe de raisin
- a bunch of grapes
Further reading
- “grappe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Noun
grappe f
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Frankish *krappō, from Proto-Germanic *krappô.
Noun
grappe oblique singular, f (oblique plural grappes, nominative singular grappe, nominative plural grappes)
- grappling hook
- (collectively) fruits or flowers together
Derived terms
Descendants
- Middle French: grape, grappe
- French: grappe
- → Middle Dutch: krappe
- Dutch: krappe
- → Middle English: grape
- ⇒ Old French: grappil
- ⇒ Old French: grappin, grapin
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (grape)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (grappe, supplement)
- French terms inherited from Middle French
- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Frankish
- French terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
- Italian non-lemma forms
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- Old French terms borrowed from Frankish
- Old French terms derived from Frankish
- Old French terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French feminine nouns
- Old French collective nouns