gota

See also: gôta, Gōta, Göta, and gøta

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin gutta.

Noun

gota f (plural gotes)

1. drop (small mass of liquid)

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan gota, from Latin gutta. Compare Occitan gota, 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

• comptagotes
• degotar
• esgotar
• gota freda
• gotejar
• gotellada
• gotera
• goteta
• ni gota

 

References

• “gota” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “gota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “gota” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “gota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Finnish

Noun

gota

1. partitive singular of go

Anagrams

• toga

Galician

Etymology

From 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

   Synonym: pinga

   • 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, 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

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

Derived terms

• gotear
• gotado
• gotalla
• gotarén
• goteira

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “gota”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “gota”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gota”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “gota”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• 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

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Hyphenation: gò‧ta

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *gauta, of Gaulish origin.

Noun

gota f (plural gote)

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

gota

1. feminine singular of goto

Anagrams

• Tago, tago, toga

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish gota, from Latin gutta.

Noun

gota f (Latin spelling, plural gotas)

1. drop

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin gutta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɔta], [ˈɡuta], [ˈɡutə]

Noun

gota

1. drop

Nias

Noun

gota

1. mutated form of ota (“udder”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

gota f (definite singular gota, indefinite plural goter or gotor, definite plural gotene or gotone)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of gote
2. definite singular of gote

Etymology 2

From the noun got n (“spawn”).

Verb

gota (present tense gotar, past tense gota, past participle gota, passive infinitive gotast, present participle gotande, imperative gota/got)

1. (transitive, zoology) to spawn

   Synonym: gyta

Etymology 3

From gote (“hole”).

Verb

gota (present tense gotar, past tense gota, past participle gota, passive infinitive gotast, present participle gotande, imperative gota/got)

1. (transitive) to make a hole (in)

Anagrams

• toga

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan gota, from Latin gutta.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

gota f (plural gotas)

1. drop (small amount of a liquid)

Old Norse

Noun

gota

1. accusative/dative/genitive singular of goti

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)
   • c. 1145, Bernard de Ventadour, Conortz, era sai eu be:

     gota d'aiga que chai

     [a] drop of water that falls

Descendants

• Occitan: gota

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 (diminutive), gotazinha (diminutive)
• gotona (augmentative)
• pseudogota

Related terms

• gotejar
• guta
• esgotar

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.tɐ/

Noun

gota f (uncountable)

1. folk dance from the Minho region in Portugal, similar to the fandango

Shabo

Verb

gota

1. (transitive) to burn

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡota/ [ˈɡo.t̪a]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: go‧ta

Noun

gota f (plural gotas)

1. a drop or small amount of
2. (in the plural) eyedrops
3. (medicine) gout
4. (heraldry) goutte

Derived terms

• caer cuatro gotas
• como dos gotas de agua
• cuentagotas
• gota a gota
• gota china
• gota de lluvia
• gota fría
• gota que colmó el vaso
• gotear
• gotera
• gotita
• gotoso
• sudar la gota gorda
• última gota

 

Further reading

• “gota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Anagrams

• gato, toga

Tabaru

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡo.ta/

Noun

gota

1. wood

   'o gota mangogu ― a piece of wood

References

• Edward A. Kotynski (1988) “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish gota.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɡota/ [ˈɡoː.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: go‧ta

Noun

gota (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜆ)

1. drop (of medicine)

   Synonym: patak

2. (medicine) gout

   Synonyms: piyo, balingtamad

Derived terms

• gotahan
• gotahin

 

Related terms

• gota-amargas
• gota-serena
• gotakural
• gotera

 

References

• “gota”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Anagrams

• toga, taog, tago