gota
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan gota, from Latin gutta. Compare Occitan gota, French goutte, Spanish gota.
Noun
gota f (plural gotes)
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.
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)
- 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
References
- “gota” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “gota” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “gota” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “gota” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “gota” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɔ.ta/
- Rhymes: -ɔta
- Hyphenation: gò‧ta
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
References
Ladino
Etymology
From Old Spanish gota, from Latin gutta.
Lombard
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɡɔta], [ˈɡuta], [ˈɡutə]
Nias
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
gota f (definite singular gota, indefinite plural goter or gotor, definite plural gotene or gotone)
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)
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)
Anagrams
Old Norse
Old Occitan
Noun
gota f (oblique plural gotas, nominative singular gota, nominative plural gotas)
- 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

Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese gota, from Latin gutta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡo.tɐ/
- Hyphenation: go‧ta
Noun
gota f (plural gotas)
Derived terms
- gotinha (diminutive), gotazinha (diminutive)
- gotona (augmentative)
- pseudogota
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɔ.tɐ/
Shabo
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡota/ [ˈɡo.t̪a]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -ota
- Syllabification: go‧ta
Noun
gota f (plural gotas)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “gota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tabaru
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡo.ta/
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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡota/, [ˈɡo.tɐ]
- Hyphenation: go‧ta
Noun
gota (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜆ)
Derived terms
- gotahan
- gotahin
Related terms
- gota-amargas
- gota-serena
- gotakural
- gotera
References
- “gota”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018