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Where does “group” come from?

Group comes from French groupe, from Italian gruppo, from Proto-Germanic kruppaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ger-.

group (English): A number of things or persons being in some...

Definitions

  1. A number of things or persons being in some...

Ancestry of “group”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchgroupegroup
2Italiangruppogroup, cluster, party, team, covey; pack; peloton
3Vulgar Latincruppo—
4Renaissance Latingrupus—
5Proto-Germanickruppaza body; mass; a compressed, round mass; lump;...
6Proto-Indo-Europeangrewb-to warp, bend, crawl; to bend, crouch, crawl; to...
7Proto-Indo-Europeanger-to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind...

Words derived from “group”

  • grouping
  • subgroup
  • intergroup
  • workgroup
  • outgroup
  • groupthink
  • newsgroup
  • groupware
  • intragroup
  • groupie
  • haplogroup
  • filegroup
  • playgroup
  • groupwork
  • serogroup
  • headgroup
  • supergroup
  • multigroup
  • Eurogroup
  • groupness
  • semigroup
  • ungroup
  • battlegroup
  • groupism
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