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Where does “grouping” come from?

Grouping derives from English group, from French groupe, from Italian gruppo, from Proto-Germanic kruppaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ger-, meaning to gather or assemble.

grouping (English): A collection of things or people united as a...

Definitions

  1. A collection of things or people united as a...

Ancestry of “grouping”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishgroupA number of things or persons being in some...
2Frenchgroupegroup
3Italiangruppogroup, cluster, party, team, covey; pack; peloton
4Vulgar Latincruppo—
5Renaissance Latingrupus—
6Proto-Germanickruppaza body; mass; a compressed, round mass; lump;...
7Proto-Indo-Europeangrewb-to warp, bend, crawl; to bend, crouch, crawl; to...
8Proto-Indo-Europeanger-to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind...
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