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English word origin

Etymology of grape

Inherited from Middle English grape, borrowed from Old French grappe (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), deverbal from graper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), borrowed from Frankish *krappō (“to hoo

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Source etymology 1

Original entry ↗
verb

To pick grapes. · Of livestock, to develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis. · To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance. · To grope.

adj

Containing grapes or having a grape flavor. · Of a dark purplish red colour.

noun

A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on female vines of most species of genus Vitis and the self-fertile plants of species Vitis vinifera. · Any woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine. · Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera, not necessarily edible. · A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Inherited from Middle English grape, borrowed from Old French grappe (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), deverbal from graper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), borrowed from Frankish *krappō (“to hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”) or *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”) Displaced Old English wīnberġe (“grape”, literally “wine-berry”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). Doublet of grappa. More at cramp.

Relationships mentioned by the source

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  • Non-cognate comparisonwīnberġeang · grape
  • Cognate mentionkrappedum · hook
  • Cognate mentionkrapfogoh · hook
  • Cognate mentionKrapfende · Berliner doughnut
  • Doublet mentiongrappaen

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Source etymology 2

Original entry ↗
verb

Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.

noun

Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

From rape, influenced by grape.

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