English
guttulous
Guttulous comes from Latin guttula ‘a little drop’, and goes back to gutta.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgutta‘drop’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEguttula‘a little drop’diminutive of gutta
- Englishearliest quotation 1646guttulous
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgutta‘drop’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEguttula‘a little drop’diminutive of gutta
- Englishearliest quotation 1646guttulous
Earliest quotation: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […]: “In its guttulous descent from the air”.
Linked words
through Latin gutta ‘drop’
Today it means
adj In drop-like form.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin gutta / guttulous