goutte

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See also: goutté

English

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Etymology

From Middle English goute, from Old French goutte, goute, gote, from Latin gutta (“drop”). Doublet of gout and gutta.

Pronunciation

Noun

goutte (plural gouttes)

  1. (heraldry) A charge in the form of a teardrop shape, originally with wavy sides, but now often with straight sides.
    • 1915, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Book of Public Arms: A Complete Encyclopædia of All Royal, Territorial, Municipal, Corporate, Official, and Impersonal Arms, London : T.C. & E.C. Jack, page 832:
      Per fesse nebuly chequy azure and or, each of the last charged with a goutte of the first, and sable, in base five estoiles, four and one of the second, all within a bordure argent, charged with eight crosses couped gules.

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  • 1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 291:
    Azure, on a lion rampant argent gouttes purpure - FOSTER, Essex. The more frequent form is gutté, or gutty, goutty, gouté (that is, semé of an indefinite number of drops). They may be of various tinctures, and in English […]

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French goutte, from Old French gote, gute, goute, from Latin gutta. The second t was added back in Middle French to reflect the original Latin spelling.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡut/
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Noun

goutte f (plural gouttes)

  1. droplet
  2. (heraldry) goutte
  3. gout (disease)
  4. (regional) rivulet; brook
  5. (slang) eau de vie

Adverb

goutte

  1. (obsolete or dialectal, used with "ne") not, not at all, not a drop
    Il ne parloit goutte
    He did not talk at all

Synonyms

  • pas (literally “(not a) step”) (contemporary French)
  • mie (literally “(not a) crumb”) (obsolete)

Derived terms

Further reading

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French gote, goutte, gote, gute.

Noun

goutte f (plural gouttes)

  1. (heraldry) goutte (droplike shape)

Descendants

  • French: goutte
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