grappe

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 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.

• 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

• “grappe” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

grappe f

1. plural of grappa

• grape, crape

Borrowed from Frankish *krappō, from Proto-Germanic *krappô.

grappe 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)