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Asturian
Etymology
From Latin gutta .
Noun
gota f (plural gotes )
drop ( small mass of liquid )
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan gota , from Latin gutta . Compare Occitan gota , French goutte , Spanish gota .
Pronunciation
Noun
gota f (plural gotes )
a drop ( a small spheroid or amount of liquid )
( architecture ) a gutta
( heraldry ) a goutte
( pathology ) Gout
Derived terms
References
Finnish
Noun
gota
partitive singular of go
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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese gota (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria ), from Latin gutta .
Pronunciation
Noun
gota f (plural gotas )
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
epilepsy
( dated ) gout
spot
Derived terms
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.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
Noun
gota f (plural gote )
( anatomy ) cheek ( human or meat-animal ) , jowl
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
gota
feminine singular of goto
References
^ gota in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line , Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
^ gòta in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
^ gota in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica , De Agostini Scuola Spa
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Ladino
Etymology
From Old Spanish gota , from Latin gutta .
Noun
gota f (Latin spelling , plural gotas )
drop
Lombard
Etymology
From Latin gutta .
Pronunciation
Noun
gota
drop
Nias
Noun
gota
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 )
( pre-2012 ) alternative form of gote
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 )
( 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 )
( transitive ) to make a hole (in)
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Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan gota , from Latin gutta .
Pronunciation
Noun
gota f (plural gotas )
drop ( small amount of a liquid )
Old Norse
Noun
gota
accusative / dative / genitive singular of goti
Old Occitan
Etymology
From Latin gutta .
Noun
gota f (oblique plural gotas , nominative singular gota , nominative plural gotas )
drop ( small amount of a liquid )
Descendants
Portuguese
uma gota
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese gota , from Latin gutta .
Pronunciation
Noun
gota f (plural gotas )
drop ( small mass of liquid )
Synonym: pingo
( pathology , uncountable ) gout ( disease characterised by acute inflammatory arthritis )
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
gota f (uncountable )
folk dance from the Minho region in Portugal, similar to the fandango
Shabo
Verb
gota
( transitive ) to burn
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish gota , from Latin gutta . Compare English gout .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈɡota/
Rhymes: -ota
Syllabification: go‧ta
Noun
gota f (plural gotas )
a drop or small amount of
( in the plural ) eyedrops
( medicine ) gout
( heraldry ) goutte
Derived terms
Further reading
Anagrams
Tabaru
Pronunciation
Noun
gota
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
Noun
gota (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜆ )
drop ( of medicine )
Synonym: patak
( medicine ) gout
Synonyms: piyo , balingtamad
Derived terms
References
“gota ”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph , Manila, 2018
Anagrams