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{{also|Griffe|griffé}}
==English==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ɡɹɪf/}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɪf|s=1}}

===Etymology 1===
From {{bor|en|fr|griffe||claw}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# A [[claw]]-like ornament at the base of a [[column]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2013|author=Russell Sturgis; Francis A. Davis|title=Sturgis' Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture and Building: An Unabridged Reprint of the 1901-2 Edition|publisher=Courier Corporation|isbn=9780486145921|page=323
|passage=The primary use of this is to give the column a broader base and to diminish the amount of the cutting away of the solid stone. The '''griffe''', however, is often used for elaborate ornamentation, being carved into vegetable or even animal form.}}

===Etymology 2===
From {{bor|en|frc|-}} (in period American English usage) and from general {{bor|en|fr|griffe}} (in reference to such people in e.g. Haiti), perhaps from (American) {{der|en|es|grifo}} (supposedly "curly-haired").<ref>{{R:Dictionary.com}}</ref>

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|chiefly|US|dialectal|dated|or|historical}} A person of mixed (black and white) race, especially the [[offspring]] of a [[mulatto]] (person of mixed black and white ancestry) and a person of fully [[black]] ancestry.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2017|author=Terry Rey|title=The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780190625863
|passage=Saint-Domingue's complex system of racial classification allowed for no fewer than eight “mixed” racial parental combinations that could produce a '''''griffe''''', as infamously calculated by Moreau.}}

=====Alternative forms=====
* [[grif]]

=====Coordinate terms=====
* {{sense|person of mixed race}} ''see list in '''{{l|en|mulatto}}'''''

===References===
* {{R:Webster 1913}}
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{{C|en|People|Racism}}

==French==

===Etymology===
{{inh+|fr|frm|griffe}}, either deverbal from {{m|fr|griffer}}, which see, or through an unattested {{der|fr|fro|-}} noun from {{der|fr|goh|grif}}, from {{der|fr|gem-pro|*gripiz}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{fr-IPA}}
* {{audio|fr|Fr-griffe.ogg}}
* {{audio|fr|Fr-Paris--griffe.ogg|a=Paris}}

===Noun===
{{fr-noun|f}}

# [[claw]]
#: {{uxi|fr|coup de '''griffe'''|swipe of the '''claws'''}}
#: {{ux|fr|Les pattes de cet animal sont armées de '''griffes'''.| The paws of this animal have '''claws'''.}}
# [[talon]]
# [[scratch]] [[mark]]
# {{lb|fr|figurative}} [[signature]] {{gloss|characteristic mark, e.g. of an artist}}
#: {{ux|fr|Il a beau n’avoir pas mis son nom à cet ouvrage, il y a mis sa '''griffe'''.
|Even though he has not put his name on this work, he has put his '''mark'''.}}
# {{lb|fr|by extension}} [[brand]], [[designer label]] {{gloss|especially fashion}}

====Descendants====
* {{desc|pt|grife|bor=1}}
* {{desc|it|griffe|bor=1}}
* {{desc|pl|gryf|bor=1|id=talon}}

===Verb===
{{head|fr|verb form}}

# {{inflection of|fr|griffer||1//3|s|pres|ind//sub|;|2|s|impr}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:fr:TLFi}}

==German==

===Verb===
{{head|de|verb form}}

# {{verb form of|de|greifen||1//3|s|sub|II}}

==Italian==

===Etymology===
{{bor+|it|fr|griffe}}.

===Pronunciation===
{{it-pr|grìffe}}

===Noun===
{{it-noun|f|#}}

# [[designer label]]

===Noun===
{{head|it|noun form|g=f}}

# {{plural of|it|griffa}}