gryps

• grȳphus

From Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡryːps/, [ɡryːps̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡrips/, [ɡrips]

grȳps m (genitive grȳpis); third declension

1. griffin

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

The accusative and ablative follow the third declension consonantal pattern (instead of expected grȳpim and grȳpī), a possible remnant of the original Greek consonantal third declension pattern.

• Asturian: grifu
• Catalan: griu, grif, grifó
• Danish: grib
• Italian: grifone, grifo
• Norwegian: gribb
• Old French: griffon, gripun, gripoun
  • Middle English: griffoun, griphon, grefoun, gryffoun, gryffone, gryffon, grifown, griphonne, gryffyn, griffone, grefyne
    • English: griffin, griffon, gryphon
  • French: griffon
• Old High German: grifo
  • Middle High German: grīfe
    • German: Greif
• Old Irish: gríb
  • Irish: gríobh
  • Manx: greeu
  • Scottish Gaelic: grib
• Portuguese: grifo
• Spanish: grifo

• “gryps”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gryps”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gryps in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “gryps”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “gryps”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Deverbal from grypsnąć (“to snatch”), from German gripsen. Alternatively borrowed from German Grips (“wit”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɨps/

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• Rhymes: -ɨps
• Syllabification: gryps

gryps m inan (diminutive grypsik)

1. (prison slang) secret message (clandestine communication between prisoners)

   Synonym: tajna wiadomość

• gryps in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• gryps in Polish dictionaries at PWN