grupus

• gruppus

From Italian gruppo, itself from Vulgar Latin *cruppus, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, group, body, crop”). Compare French groupe, Spanish grupo, English group.

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡru.pus/, [ˈɡruːpus]

grupus m (genitive grupī); second declension

1. (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.

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   • 1989, Carlos Ibáñez, Rodrigo Fernández, Catálogo de murciélagos de las colecciones del Museo Nacional de Ciencias‎^[1] (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:

     […] Grunnio, Gryllus, Gryphs-phis, Grupus, Gummi, Gutta, Guttur […]

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Second-declension noun.

• "grupus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)