gutta

From Middle English gutta, from Latin gutta. Doublet of gout and goutte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡʌtə/

gutta (plural guttae or guttas)

1. (architecture) A small water-repelling, cone-shaped projection used in the architrave of the Doric order in classical architecture.
2. A small round spot of colour.

• gutta hangkang
• gutta-percha
• gutta serena

Unknown origin.[1] May be related to Old Armenian կաթն (katʻn, “milk”), or may have some connection to Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡut.ta/, [ˈɡʊt̪ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡut.ta/, [ˈɡut̪ːä]

gutta f (genitive guttae); first declension

1. a drop (of fluid)
2. a teardrop
   • 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 1.3.3-4:

     cum repetō noctem, quā tot mihi cāra relīquī,
     lābitur ex oculīs nunc quoque gutta meīs.

     When I recall the night, on which so many [things] dear to me I left behind, even now a teardrop falls from my eyes.

3. (in the plural) spots or specks (of an animal or stone)
4. (architecture) a small ornament under the triglyphs of a Doric column

First-declension noun.

• guttātim
• guttātus
• guttula

• “gutta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gutta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gutta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• gutta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• gutta in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “gutta”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

• guttene

[ˈɟʏ̂t̻ˑɑ]

gutta m

1. (non-standard since 1983) definite plural of gutt

Inherited from Sanskrit गुप्त (gupta).

gutta

1. past participle of gopeti (“to guard”)
   • 2006, The First Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Dīgha-Nikāya (I)‎, page 184:

     54. කටඤ‍්ච අම‍්බට‍්ඨ භික‍්ඛු ඉන්‍ද්‍රියෙසු ගුත‍්තද‍්වාරො හොති? ඉධ
     අම‍්බට‍්ඨ භික‍්ඛු චක‍්ඛුනා රූපං දිස‍්වා න නිමිත‍්තග‍්ගාහි හොති නානුබ්‍යඤ‍්ජ-
     නග‍්ගාහි. යත්‍වාධිරණමෙතං චක‍්ඛුන්‍ද්‍රියං අසංවුතං විහරන‍්තං අභිජ‍්ඣා-
     දොමනස‍්සා පාපකා අකුසලා ධම‍්මා අන්‍වාස‍්සවෙය්‍යුං තස‍්ස සංවරාය පටිපජ‍්ජති
     රක‍්ඛති චක‍්ඛුන්‍ද්‍රියං, චක‍්ඛුන්‍ද්‍රියෙ සංවරං ආපඛ‍ජ‍්ජති

     54. Kathañca Ambaṭṭha bhikkhu indriyesu guttadvāro hoti? Idha Ambaṭṭha bhikkhu cakkhunā rūpaṃ disvā na nimittaggāhī hoti nānubyañjanaggāhī. Yatvādhikaraṇametaṃ cakkhundriyaṃ asaṃvutaṃ viharantaṃ abhijjhādomanassā pāpakā akusalā dhammā anvāssaveyyuṃ tassa saṃvarāya paṭipajjati rakkhati cakkhundriyaṃ, cakkhundriye saṃvaraṃ āpajjati.

     54. And how, Ambattha, is the Bhikshu guarded as to the doors of his senses? When, Ambattha, he sees an object with his eye he is not entranced in the general appearance or the details of it. He sets himself to restrain that which might give occasion for evil states, covetousness and dejection, to flow in over him so long as he dwells unrestrained as to his sense of sight. He keeps watch upon his faculty of sight, and in the faculty he undergoes restraint.

• guttadvāra (“with well-guarded senses”)

• guota (Sursilvan)
• guta (Sutsilvan)
• gotta (Surmiran)
• guotta (Puter, Vallader)
• aguotta (Puter)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

gutta f (plural guttas)

1. (carpentry, Rumantsch Grischun) nail