gota

See also: gôta, Gōta, Göta, and gøta

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin gutta.

Noun

gota f (plural gotes)

1. drop (small mass of liquid)

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Catalan

Etymology

From (compare Occitan gota), from Latin gutta (compare French goutte, Spanish gota).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡo.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡo.ta]

Noun

gota f (plural gotes)

1. A drop (a small spheroid or amount of liquid)
2. (architecture) A gutta.
3. (heraldry) A goutte.
4. (pathology) Gout.

Derived terms

• goteta
• ni gota (nothing)

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Finnish

Noun

gota

1. (deprecated template usage) partitive singular of go

Anagrams

• toga

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese gota (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin gutta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡota̝/

Noun

gota f (plural gotas)

1. drop, droplet
   • 1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 195:

     Os mouros, logo que virõ os jnfantes ẽno cãpo, ferirõ os atãbores et veerõ sobre elles tam espessos com̃o as gotas ẽnas chuuyas que caẽ

     The Moors, as they saw the infants on the field, hit they drums and came over them, as thick as drops in the rain

   Synonym: pinga

2. epilepsy
3. (dated) gout
4. spot

Derived terms

• gotear
• gotado
• gotalla
• gotarén
• goteira

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “gota”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gota”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *gauta, of Gaulish origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.ta/

Noun

gota f (plural gote)

1. cheek (human or meat-animal), jowl

Adjective

gota

1. feminine singular of goto

Anagrams

• toga

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Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish gota, from Latin gutta.

Noun

1. drop

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Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan gota, from Latin gutta.

Noun

gota f (plural gotas)

1. drop (small amount of a liquid)

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Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin gutta.

Noun

gota f (oblique plural gotas, nominative singular gota, nominative plural gotas)

1. drop (small amount of a liquid)
   • circa 1145, Bernard de Ventadour, Conortz, era sai eu be:

     gota d'aiga que chai

     [a] drop of water that falls

Descendants

• Catalan: gota
• Occitan: gota

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Portuguese

uma gota

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese gota, from Latin gutta.

Alternative forms

• gôta, gotta, gôtta (all obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡo.tɐ/
• Hyphenation: go‧ta

Noun

gota f (plural gotas)

1. drop (small mass of liquid)

   Synonym: pingo

2. (pathology, uncountable) gout (disease characterised by acute inflammatory arthritis)

Derived terms

• gotinha, gotazinha (diminutives)
• gotona (augmentative)
• pseudogota

Related terms

• gotejar
• guta
• esgotar

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.tɐ/

Verb

gota

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Shabo

Verb

gota

1. (transitive) to burn

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish gota, from Latin gutta. Compare English gout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡota/ [ˈɡo.t̪a]

Noun

gota f (plural gotas)

1. a drop or small amount of
2. gout
3. (heraldry) goutte

Derived terms

• como dos gotas de agua
• cuentagotas
• gota que colmó el vaso
• gotear
• gotera
• gotita
• sudar la gota gorda

 

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001