guttur

Latin

Etymology

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Unknown. The traditional etymology from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve”) is unlikely, and the unexplained geminate suffix is suspicious.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡʊt.tʊr]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡut.tur]

Noun

guttur n (genitive gutturis); third declension

(anatomy) throat, neck, gullet
gluttony

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	guttur	guttura
genitive	gutturis	gutturum
dative	gutturī	gutturibus
accusative	guttur	guttura
ablative	gutture	gutturibus
vocative	guttur	guttura

Derived terms

Descendants

Galician: goto
Portuguese: goto
Romanian: gât
Romansh: gutter
Sardinian: gutturu
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *gutturiō
- Catalan: gotirló
- Old French: goitron
- >? French: goitre
  - → English: goitre
>? Italian: gozzo

References

“guttur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“guttur”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"guttur", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“guttur”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.