Etymograph

English

guttate

Guttate comes from Latin guttātus ‘spotted, speckled’, and goes back to guttae.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEguttae‘spots or specks’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEguttātus‘spotted, speckled’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1999guttate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEguttae‘spots or specks’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEguttātus‘spotted, speckled’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1999guttate

Earliest quotation: 1999, Australian Journal of Plant Physiology:: “Recovery from this extreme wilt began only in the…”

Formed from gutta + -ate

Latin gutta ‘a drop of fluid, especially of natural…’

Middle English gutta

English gutta

The story

Partly borrowed from Latin guttātus, partly from gutta + -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Every English word from Latin guttae

Today it means

adj Shaped like or resembling drops.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin guttae / guttate

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