🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

gruppo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /ˈɡɾuppo/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Group/ɡruːp/
nounverbCEFR A1 (Beginner)Top #85 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Un gruppo di amici è andato al cinema."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A number of people or things that are located, gathered, or classed together.

    "A group of students gathered outside the library for the exam."
As verb
  1. 1

    To place people or things together in a group or category.

    "The teacher decided to group the students by their language proficiency levels."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Italian word 'gruppo', meaning a knot or cluster, which originated from the Germanic root *kruppo meaning a rounded mass or lump. It entered the French language as 'groupe' in the 17th century before being adopted into English to denote a collection of persons or things.

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