guttula

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin guttula.

Noun

guttula (plural guttulae)

1. (formal) A droplet.
   • 1822, The Quarterly Journal of Foreign and British Medicine and Surgery, volume 4, page 341:

     The sputa, during pneumonorrhagia and peripneumony, is often yellow also, not from bile, but from the guttulæ of blood; […]

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin gutta

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ula

Latin guttula

From gutta + -ula (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡʊt.tʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡut.tu.la]

Noun

guttula f (genitive guttulae); first declension

1. droplet

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	guttula	guttulae
genitive	guttulae	guttulārum
dative	guttulae	guttulīs
accusative	guttulam	guttulās
ablative	guttulā	guttulīs
vocative	guttula	guttulae

Further reading

• “guttula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “guttula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.