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Interlingua
Noun
gruppo (plural gruppos)
- group
Italian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *cruppus, (cf. Renaissance Latin grupus), itself borrowed from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, group, body, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡrup.po/
- Rhymes: -uppo
- Hyphenation: grùp‧po
Noun
gruppo m (plural gruppi)
- group, cluster, party, team, covey
- (sports) pack
- (cycling) peloton
- (music) band
- Synonyms: gruppo musicale, band
Coordinate terms
- (group): (military aviation) stormo (the larger organizational level above gruppo)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- gruppo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana