Etymology

group

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Today it means: A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another. Full definition →

Italian gruppo ← French groupe ← Vulgar Latin *cruppus
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*grewbʰ-
  2. Proto-Germanic*kruppaz
  3. Frankish*krupp
  4. Vulgar Latin*cruppus
  5. Italiangruppo
  6. Frenchgroupe
  7. Italiangruppo
  8. English todaygroup

From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”). Displaced native Old English hād (“tribe, group”). In the "group theory" sense, calqued from French groupe, a term coined by the young French mathematician Évariste Galois in 1830. Cognate with German Kropf (“crop, craw, bunch”); Old English cropp, croppa (“cluster, bunch, sprout, flower, berry, ear of corn, crop”) (whence English crop); Dutch krop (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup. Compare Persian گروه.

Words from the same roots

Italiangruppo all →

gruppogroupo

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.