croup

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹuːp/

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• Rhymes: -uːp

Etymology 1

From Middle English croupe, from Old French croupe (“rump, body”), from Old Norse kroppr (“body, trunk, mass”), from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, mass, heap, collection, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to curve, bend, crawl”). More at crupper, doublet of croupe, group, and crop.

Alternative forms

• croupe

Noun

croup (plural croups)

1. The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.

   Coordinate terms: crupper, rump, buttocks

   • 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “(please specify the introduction or canto number, or chapter name)”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC:

     So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, / So light to the saddle before her he sprung.

   • 1835, Charles Frederick Partington, The British cyclopædia of natural history:

     The guib [a kind of antelope] is of the mean dimensions, or four feet and a half in total length, and two and a half high at the shoulders, but rather higher at the croup.

Translations

top of the rump of a horse

• Armenian: գավակ (hy) (gavak)
• Azerbaijani: sağrı
• Catalan: gropa (ca) f
• Czech: zadek (cs) m
• Finnish: lautaset (fi) pl
• French: croupe (fr) f
• Galician: sobrecú m, rabadilla f
• Italian: groppa (it) f
• Kumyk: савру (sawru)
• Lezgi: сагъри (saġri)
• Norman: croupe f (Jersey)
• Romanian: crupă (ro) f
• Russian: круп (ru) m (krup)
• Spanish: grupa (es) f
• Talysh: ümbə

Etymology 2

From Scots croup, croop (“the croup”), from Scots croup, crowp, croop (“to croak, speak hoarsely, murmur, complain”), from Old Scots crowp, crope, croap (“to call loudly, croak”), alteration of rowp, roup, roip, rope (“to cry, cry hoarsely, roop”), from Middle English roupen, ropen, from Old English hrōpan (“to shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōpaną (“to shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor- (“to caw, crow”). More at roop.

Verb

croup (third-person singular simple present croups, present participle crouping, simple past and past participle crouped)

1. (obsolete outside dialects) To croak, make a hoarse noise.

Translations

to croak — see croak

Noun

croup (uncountable)

1. (pathology) An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.

Usage notes

• There are two forms of croup, one caused by the diphtheria bacterium which may be deadly if not cured, and the other, less severe, caused by viruses. The viral form was formerly called pseudocroup. Vaccines and antibiotics have nearly eradicated the diphtheritic form from developed countries, and now the term "croup" chiefly refers to the viral form.

Derived terms

• croupous
• croupy
• false croup

Translations

an infectious illness of the larynx

• Armenian: խռուկ (hy) (xṙuk), խռիկ (hy) (xṙik)
• Bulgarian: спазматичен ларингит m (spazmatičen laringit) (мед.)
• Catalan: crup (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 義膜性喉炎／义膜性喉炎 (yìmóxìng hóuyán), 喉氣管支氣管炎／喉气管支气管炎 (hóuqìguǎnzhīqìguǎnyán), 哮吼 (zh) (xiàohǒu)

• Danish: strubehoste c
• Esperanto: krupo
• Finnish: kuristustauti (diphtheritic form); valekuristustauti (fi) (viral form)
• French: croup (fr) m
• Galician: crup m
• German: Krupp (de) m, Kehlkopfdiphtherie f (diphtheric), Pseudokrupp m (viral)
• Hungarian: krupp (hu)
• Irish: tochtán m
• Lezgi: бугъма (buġma)
• Polish: krup (pl) m
• Russian: круп (ru) m (krup)
• Scots: croup
• Spanish: crup m, garrotillo m
• Swedish: krupp (sv) c
• Turkish: krup
• Welsh: crŵp m

Anagrams

• cupro, cupro-