grouper
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɹuːpə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
From Portuguese garoupa (“grouper”). Compare garrupa.
Noun
grouper (plural groupers or grouper)
a giant grouper (Epinephelus lanceolatus)
- Any of various large food and game fishes of the subfamily Epinephelinae, especially the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca, which inhabit warm seas.
Alternative forms
- groper
Derived terms
- 10-spine grouper (Hyporthodus exsul)
- areolate grouper (Epinephelus areolatus)
- argus grouper (Cephalopholis argus)
- black grouper (Hyporthodus mystacinus; Mycteroperca bonaci)
- blacktip grouper (Epinephelus fasciatus)
- blotch grouper (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus)
- bluespotted grouper (Cephalopholis argus))
- broomtail grouper (Mycteroperca xenarcha))
- calico grouper (Epinephelus drummondhayi)
- comb grouper (Mycteroperca rubra; Mycteroperca acutirostris)
- convict grouper (Hyporthodus mystacinus)
- goliath grouper (Epinephelus itajara)
- Gulf grouper (Mycteroperca jordani)
- honeycomb grouper (Epinephelus merra)
- humpback grouper (Cromileptes altivelis, syn. Epinephelus altivelis)
- kelp grouper (Epinephelus bruneus)
- lyretail grouper (Variola louti)
- marbled grouper (Dermatolepis inermis)
- masked grouper (Gracila albomarginata, syn. Epinephelus albomarginatus)
- misty grouper (Hyporthodus mystacinus)
- moustache grouper (Hyporthodus mystacinus)
- Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus)
- panther grouper (Epinephelus altivelis, syn. Cromileptes altivelis)
- red grouper (Epinephelus morio)
- redmouth grouper (Aethaloperca rogaa)
- sickelfish grouper (Dermatolepis inermis)
- slender grouper (Epinephelus leucogrammicus, syn. Anyperodon leucogrammicus)
- snowy grouper (Hyporthodus niveatus; Hyporthodus niphobles)
- star-studded grouper (Hyporthodus niphobles)
- tiger grouper (Mycteroperca tigris)
- Warsaw grouper (Hyporthodus nigritus)
- white grouper (Mycteroperca cidi)
- yellowedge grouper (Hyporthodus flavolimbatus)
- yellowfin grouper (Mycteroperca venenosa)
- yellowmouth grouper (Mycteroperca interstitialis)
Translations
fish
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Etymology 2
group + -er
Noun
grouper (plural groupers)
- One who groups things.
- (dated) groupie
- 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Bantam, published 1997, →ISBN, page 5:
- There was also a little roundfaced brunette named Marilyn who told me she used to be a teenie grouper hanging out with a rock'n'roll group called The Wild Flowers but now she was mainly with Bobby Petersen.
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Anagrams
- grupero, regroup
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡʁu.pe/
grouper (file)
Verb
grouper
- to group (to put together to form a group)
Conjugation
Conjugation of grouper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | grouper | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | groupant /ɡʁu.pɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | groupé /ɡʁu.pe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | groupe /ɡʁup/ | groupes /ɡʁup/ | groupe /ɡʁup/ | groupons /ɡʁu.pɔ̃/ | groupez /ɡʁu.pe/ | groupent /ɡʁup/ |
| imperfect | groupais /ɡʁu.pɛ/ | groupais /ɡʁu.pɛ/ | groupait /ɡʁu.pɛ/ | groupions /ɡʁu.pjɔ̃/ | groupiez /ɡʁu.pje/ | groupaient /ɡʁu.pɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | groupai /ɡʁu.pe/ | groupas /ɡʁu.pa/ | groupa /ɡʁu.pa/ | groupâmes /ɡʁu.pam/ | groupâtes /ɡʁu.pat/ | groupèrent /ɡʁu.pɛʁ/ | |
| future | grouperai /ɡʁu.pʁe/ | grouperas /ɡʁu.pʁa/ | groupera /ɡʁu.pʁa/ | grouperons /ɡʁu.pʁɔ̃/ | grouperez /ɡʁu.pʁe/ | grouperont /ɡʁu.pʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | grouperais /ɡʁu.pʁɛ/ | grouperais /ɡʁu.pʁɛ/ | grouperait /ɡʁu.pʁɛ/ | grouperions /ɡʁu.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ | grouperiez /ɡʁu.pə.ʁje/ | grouperaient /ɡʁu.pʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | groupe /ɡʁup/ | groupes /ɡʁup/ | groupe /ɡʁup/ | groupions /ɡʁu.pjɔ̃/ | groupiez /ɡʁu.pje/ | groupent /ɡʁup/ |
| imperfect2 | groupasse /ɡʁu.pas/ | groupasses /ɡʁu.pas/ | groupât /ɡʁu.pa/ | groupassions /ɡʁu.pa.sjɔ̃/ | groupassiez /ɡʁu.pa.sje/ | groupassent /ɡʁu.pas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | groupe /ɡʁup/ | — | groupons /ɡʁu.pɔ̃/ | groupez /ɡʁu.pe/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
- regrouper
Further reading
- “grouper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.