groupuscule

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English

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Etymology

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From French groupuscule.

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Noun

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groupuscule (plural groupuscules)

  1. A small political group, especially of an extremist faction.
    • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 87:
      Thus, by the time that I enrolled as an “undergraduate” at Balliol College, Oxford, I was already a militant “student” member of the International Socialist groupuscule, as such factions were to become known after the momentously imminent events in France.

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French

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Etymology

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From groupe +‎ -cule, modeled after minuscule.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡʁu.pys.kyl/
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Noun

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groupuscule m (plural groupuscules)

  1. (derogatory) groupuscule (small political group)
    un groupuscule d’extrême droitea small far-right group
    • 2019 March 15, Timothée Boutry, “Attentat de Christchurch : «Une montée de la violence d’extrême droite»”, in Le Parisien[1]:
      En France, même s’il n’est pas passé à l’action, on peut citer le groupuscule AFO (action des forces opérationnelles) démantelé cet été qui projetait de s’en prendre à des musulmans.
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Descendants

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  • Catalan: grupuscle
  • English: groupuscule
  • Italian: gruppuscolo
  • Spanish: grupúsculo

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