grype

English

Etymology 1

Verb

grype (third-person singular simple present grypes, present participle gryping, simple past and past participle gryped)

1. Obsolete spelling of gripe.

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• gripe

Noun

grype (plural grypes)

1. (obsolete) A vulture, Gyps fulvus; the griffin.
   • 1758 [1540], “The Inventory of such Things as were kept in the Church of Fountains”, in John Burton, editor, Monasticon Eboracense: and the Ecclesiastical History of Yorkshire, York: […] for the Author, by N. Nickson, […], page 144:

     One grype-ſchill, with a covering, gilt, […]

   • 1520, Chronicles of England; quoted in “Gripe, sb.³”, in James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes IV (F–G), London: Clarendon Press, 1884–1928, →OCLC, page 430, column 1:

     His faders deed bodye..he devyded to an hondred grypes lest he sholde ryde from dethe to lyfe.

   • 1588 (first recorded performance; first printed in 1592), John Lilly, “Gallathea”, in The Dramatic Works of John Lilly, (The Euphuist.) With Notes and Some Account of His Life and Writings by F. W. Fairholt, […]., volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], published 1858, page 237:

     O my child, grypes make their nests of gold though their coates are feathers; […]

   • 1863, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, signature E2, recto:

     Like a white Hinde vnder the grypes ſharpe clawes, […]

   • 1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Devteronomie 14:12–13, page 427:

     The vncleane eate not: to witte, the eagle, and the grype, and the oſprey, the ringtaile, and the vulture and kite according to their kinde: […]

   • a. 1767, “Sir Aldingar”, in Francis James Child, editor, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, part III, Boston, Mass.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, published 1885, page 45:

     I dreamed a grype and a grimlie beast / Had carryed my crowne away, / My gorgett and my kirtle of golde, / And all my faire heade-geere.

Translations

Gyps fulvus — see griffin,‎ griffon vulture

Latin

Noun

grype

1. ablative singular of gryps

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English gripe.

Noun

grype

1. Alternative form of gripe (“grip”)

Etymology 2

From Old French gripe.

Noun

grype

1. Alternative form of gripe (“griffin”)

Etymology 3

From Old English grīpan.

Verb

grype

1. Alternative form of gripen

Etymology 4

From Old English grēp.

Noun

grype

1. Alternative form of grippe