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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Italian gruppo, itself from Vulgar Latin *cruppus, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, group, body, crop”). Compare French groupe, Spanish grupo, English group.
Pronunciation
Noun
grupus m (genitive grupūs); fourth declension
- (Renaissance Latin, New Latin) group
1400-1500, anonymous author, Arte de tocar el laúd, page 343:Primus grupus post Alif in ipso instrumento est semythonum. Secundus grupus respondet ipsi Alif per thonum.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1989, Carlos Ibáñez, Rodrigo Fernández, Catálogo de murciélagos de las colecciones del Museo Nacional de Ciencias (in English), page 1:A careful study of the different grupus could make possible some other names like Rhinolopnus carpetanus, R.f.obscurus, Pipistrellus p […]
1635, Bartolomé Bravo, Thesaurus verborum, ac phrasium, ad orationem ex Hispana Latinam efficiendam & locupletandam:
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
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