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 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
• 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.

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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

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

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Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish gota, from Latin gutta.

Noun

gota f (Latin spelling, plural gotas)

1. drop

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Lombard

Etymology

From Latin gutta

Pronunciation

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

Noun

gota

1. drop

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Nias

Noun

gota

1. mutated form of ota (“udder”)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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

Verb

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

1. Alternative form of gote

Anagrams

• toga

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Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan gota, from Latin gutta.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

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

• 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]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ota
• Hyphenation: go‧ta

Noun

gota f (plural gotas)

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

Derived terms

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

 

Further reading

• “gota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28

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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