grif

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English

Pronunciation

Noun

grif (plural grifs)

  1. (dated or historical) Alternative form of griffe (person of mixed (black and white) race).
    • 1807, François Raymond J. de Pons, Travels in South America, during ... 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804. Transl, page 249:
      His colour is nearly that of a grif or cobb, the produce of a mulatto and negro.
    • 1992, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century, LSU Press, →ISBN, page 263:
      in the inventory of the estate of Jean Decuir in 1771, she was listed as one of 3 mulatto children of a grif mother.
    • 2012, Andrew Sluyter, Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 82:
      Lisette also had two older daughters: Magdaleine, born in 1749; and Francoise, born in 1753 and variously identified as a grif or mulatto.
    • 2017, Terry Rey, The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 50:
      author of one of the most detailed contemporary discussions about the prophetess and the Trou Coffy insurgency, was the first on record to refer to the prophetess as a “grif,” meaning someone born to one black and one mulatto parent.

Anagrams

Catalan

Noun

grif m (plural grifs)

  1. alternative form of griu

Danish

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Etymology

From Old Danish gryph, from Latin gryps, Derived from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps). Doublet of grib and kerub.

Pronunciation

Noun

grif c (singular definite griffen, plural indefinite griffer)

  1. a griffin

Inflection

Declension of grif

gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative grif griffen griffer grifferne
genitive grifs griffens griffers griffernes

References

Dutch

Etymology

Probably by contraction from an older form *gerif, in that form attested in East Frisian and in Gronings, cognate with Dutch gerief (amenity).

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪf
  • IPA(key): /ɣrɪf/

Adjective

grif (comparative griffer, superlative grifst)

  1. prompt, without hesitation, ready
  2. eager

Declension

Declension of grif
uninflected grif
inflected griffe
comparative griffer
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial grif griffer het grifst
het grifste
indefinite m./f. sing. griffe griffere grifste
n. sing. grif griffer grifste
plural griffe griffere grifste
definite griffe griffere grifste
partitive grifs griffers

Synonyms

Middle High German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈɡriːf/

Verb

grīf

  1. second-person singular present imperative of grīfen

Old High German

Verb

grīf

  1. second-person singular present imperative of grīfan

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Griff.

Noun

grif m (Cyrillic spelling гриф)

  1. (Kajkavian) grip
  2. (Kajkavian) handle