Noun: griffon
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | griffon |
| Plural m | griffons |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like griffon
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Pre-Greekbor.?
3. Ancient Greek γρῡ́ψ (grū́ps)bor.
4. Latin grȳps
5. Latin grȳphus
6. Old French grifon
7. French griffon
8. Inherited from Old French grifon (grif + -on), from Latin grȳphus, gryps, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps). See: Latin Nouns '
grȳphus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
γρύψ'.
Verbs referencing "griffon"
Italian Nouns
grifone, Finnish Nouns
griffoni, Romanian Nouns
grifon.
Translations