grappe

Inherited 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 Germanic origin, from Frankish *krappo (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *grep- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, end, twist”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (German Krapfe). More at cramp.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁap/

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grappe f (plural grappes)

1. bunch, cluster

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

• cerisier à grappes
• lâcher la grappe
• merisier à grappes

• “grappe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrap.pe/
• Rhymes: -appe
• Hyphenation: gràp‧pe

grappe f

1. plural of grappa

• greppa

• grape, crape

Borrowed from Frankish *krappō.

grappe oblique singular, f (oblique plural grappes, nominative singular grappe, nominative plural grappes)

1. grappling hook
2. (collectively) fruits or flowers together

• grappil
• grappin, grapin

• Middle French: grape, grappe
  • French: grappe
• → Middle Dutch: krappe
  • Dutch: krappe
• → Middle English: grape
  • English: grape
    • → Cornish: grappa
• ⇒ Old French: grappil
  • Middle English: grapel, grapell, grabel, crappelle
    • Scots: graiple
    • English: grapple
• ⇒ Old French: grappin, grapin
  • Middle French: grappin
    • French: grappin
  • → Galician: grampín

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (grape)
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (grappe, supplement)