groupe

groupe (plural groupes)

1. Obsolete spelling of group.
   • 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book. IX. [The popular Festival, and Music.]] Chap[ter] III.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 18:

     He approached several groupes of gentlemen who seemed, by their voice and gesture, to be discoursing upon some important subject; […]

• e-group, progue

From Italian gruppo, itself derived from Vulgar Latin *cruppo, Renaissance Latin grupus, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁup/

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groupe m (plural groupes)

1. group

• “groupe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.