goutte

See also: goutté

English

Etymology

From Middle English goute, from Old French goutte, goute, gote, from Latin gutta (“drop”). Doublet of gout and gutta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡuːt/
• Rhymes: -uːt

Noun

goutte (plural gouttes)

1. (heraldry) A charge in the form of a teardrop shape, originally with wavy sides, but now often with straight sides.
   • 1915, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Book of Public Arms: A Complete Encyclopædia of All Royal, Territorial, Municipal, Corporate, Official, and Impersonal Arms, London : T.C. & E.C. Jack, page 832:

     Per fesse nebuly chequy azure and or, each of the last charged with a goutte of the first, and sable, in base five estoiles, four and one of the second, all within a bordure argent, charged with eight crosses couped gules.

Translations

heraldic charge

• Catalan: gota (ca) f
• French: goutte (fr) f
• Italian: goccia (it) f
• Spanish: gota (es) f
• Swedish: droppe (sv) c

See also

• 1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 291:

  Azure, on a lion rampant argent gouttes purpure - FOSTER, Essex. The more frequent form is gutté, or gutty, goutty, gouté (that is, semé of an indefinite number of drops). They may be of various tinctures, and in English […]

Anagrams

• get out, get-out

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French goutte, from Old French gote, gute, goute, from Latin gutta. The second t was added back in Middle French to reflect the original Latin spelling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡut/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: goûte, goûtent, goûtes, gouttes

Noun

goutte f (plural gouttes)

1. droplet
2. (heraldry) goutte
3. gout (disease)
4. (regional) rivulet; brook
5. (slang) eau de vie

Adverb

goutte

1. (obsolete or dialectal, used with "ne") not, not at all, not a drop

   Il ne parloit goutte

   He did not talk at all

Synonyms

• pas (literally “(not a) step”) (contemporary French)
• mie (literally “(not a) crumb”) (obsolete)

Derived terms

• comme deux gouttes d’eau
• compte-gouttes
• égoutter
• goutte de sang
• goutte d’eau dans l’océan
• goutte saturnine
• gouttelette
• la goutte d’eau qui fait déborder le vase
• suer à grosses gouttes
• transpirer à grosses gouttes

 

Further reading

• “goutte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French gote, goutte, gote, gute.

Noun

goutte f (plural gouttes)

1. (heraldry) goutte (droplike shape)

Descendants

• French: goutte