Etymology

grype

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Today it means: A vulture, Gyps fulvus; the griffin. Full definition →

Middle English gripe ← Old French gripe ← Latin gryps
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromγρῡ́ψ
  2. Latin · derived fromgryps
  3. Old French · derived fromgripe
  4. Middle English · inherited fromgripe
  5. English todaygrype

From Middle English gripe, from Old French gripe, from Latin gryps, grȳphus, from Ancient Greek γρῡ́ψ (grū́ps).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekγρῡ́ψ all →

griffin

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.