Etymograph

English

guttula

Guttula comes from Latin guttula ‘droplet’, and goes back to gutta ‘a drop of fluid, especially of natural…’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgutta‘a drop of fluid, especially of natural substances’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEguttula‘droplet’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1822same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgutta‘a drop of fluid, especially of natural substances’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEguttula‘droplet’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1822same form

Earliest quotation: 1822, The Quarterly Journal of Foreign and Bri: “The sputa, during pneumonorrhagia and peripneumony, is often yellow…”

Linked words

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

gt, gout, gutta, 9 more

Today it means

noun A droplet.

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

Etymograph / Latin gutta / guttula

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