grif

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹɪf/
• Rhymes: -ɪf

Noun

grif (plural grifs)

1. (dated or historical) Alternative form of griffe (“person of mixed (black and white) race”)
   • 1807, François Raymond J. de Pons, Travels in South America, during ... 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804. Transl, page 249:

     His colour is nearly that of a grif or cobb, the produce of a mulatto and negro.

   • 1992, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century, LSU Press, →ISBN, page 263:

     […] in the inventory of the estate of Jean Decuir in 1771, she was listed as one of 3 mulatto children of a grif mother.

   • 2012, Andrew Sluyter, Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 82:

     Lisette also had two older daughters: Magdaleine, born in 1749; and Francoise, born in 1753 and variously identified as a grif or mulatto.

   • 2017, Terry Rey, The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 50:

     [This] author of one of the most detailed contemporary discussions about the prophetess and the Trou Coffy insurgency, was the first on record to refer to the prophetess as a “grif,” meaning someone born to one black and one mulatto parent.

Anagrams

• frig

Catalan

Noun

grif m (plural grifs)

1. Alternative form of griu

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish gryph, from Latin gryps, Derived from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps). Doublet of grib and kerub.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡʁif]

Noun

grif c (singular definite griffen, plural indefinite griffer)

1. a griffin

Inflection

Declension of grif

gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	grif	griffen	griffer	grifferne
genitive	grifs	griffens	griffers	griffernes

References

• “grif” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Probably by contraction from an older form *gerif, in that form attested in East Frisian and in Gronings, cognate with Dutch gerief (“amenity”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪf
• IPA^(key): /ɣrɪf/

Adjective

grif (comparative griffer, superlative grifst)

1. prompt, without hesitation, ready
2. eager

Declension

Declension of grif
uninflected	grif
inflected	griffe
comparative	griffer
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		grif	griffer	het grifst het grifste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	griffe	griffere	grifste
	n. sing.	grif	griffer	grifste
	plural	griffe	griffere	grifste
definite		griffe	griffere	grifste
partitive		grifs	griffers	—

Synonyms

• (eager): gretig

Middle High German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈɡriːf/

Verb

grīf

1. second-person singular present imperative of grīfen

Old High German

Verb

grīf

1. second-person singular present imperative of grīfan

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Griff.

Noun

grif m (Cyrillic spelling гриф)

1. (Kajkavian) grip
2. (Kajkavian) handle