"group" in seven languages
Meaninggroup
Spanish
grupo
/ˈgɾupo/
masc.borrowed · Italian gruppo
French
groupe
/gʁup/
masc.borrowed · Italian gruppo (17th c.)
Italian
gruppo
/ˈgruppo/
masc.inherited
Portuguese
grupo
/ˈɡɾupu/
masc.borrowed · Italian gruppo
Romanian
grup
/ɡrup/
neut.borrowed · French groupe / Italian gruppo
Catalan
grup
/ɡɾup/
masc.borrowed · Italian gruppo (probably via French groupe)
English
group
/gɹup/
from Latin/French · French groupe (Italian gruppo)
English → ItaliangroupgruppoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
*KRUPPA (Germanic)‘lump, round mass’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A word that left Italy with Renaissance art: gruppo was a sculptor's and painter's term for figures massed together, borrowed by French in the 17th century and then by Spanish. Its root is a Germanic word for a lump or knot.
English relatives: group (via French)
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In a sentence
- esViajamos en grupo.
- frNous voyageons en groupe.
- itViaggiamo in gruppo.
- ptViajamos em grupo.
- roCălătorim în grup.
- caViatgem en grup.
- enWe travel in a group.