Etymograph

English

guttatim

Guttatim comes from Latin guttātim ‘dropwise, drop by drop’, and goes back to gutta.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgutta‘drop’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEguttātim‘dropwise, drop by drop’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1882guttatim

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgutta‘drop’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEguttātim‘dropwise, drop by drop’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1882guttatim

Earliest quotation: 1882, Brojendro Nath Banerjee, Two cases of hydrorrhoea gravidorum: “It used to come on in a gush also…”

Linked words

through Latin gutta ‘drop’

gt, gout, 10 more

Today it means

adv Drop by drop; one drop at a time.

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

Etymograph / Latin gutta / guttatim

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