gota

See also: gôta, Gōta, Göta, and gøta

Albanian

Noun

gota

1. inflection of gotë:
   1. definite nominative singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin gutta.

Noun

gota f (plural gotes)

1. drop (small mass of liquid)

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan gota, from Latin gutta. Compare Occitan gota, French goutte, Spanish gota.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡo.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡo.ta]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Noun

gota f (plural gotes)

1. a drop (a small spheroid or amount of liquid)
2. (architecture) a gutta
3. (heraldry) a goutte
4. (pathology) Gout

Derived terms

• comptagotes
• degotar
• esgotar
• gota freda
• gotejar
• gotellada
• gotera
• goteta
• ni gota

References

• “gota”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “gota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “gota” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “gota”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Finnish

Noun

gota

1. partitive singular of go

Anagrams

• toga

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese gota (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin gutta.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡota/ [ˈɡo.t̪ɐ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ˈɡota/ [ˈɡo.t̪ɐ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada) /ˈħota/ [ˈħo.t̪ɐ]

• Rhymes: -ota
• Hyphenation: go‧ta

Noun

gota f (plural gotas)

1. drop, droplet

   Synonym: pinga

2. epilepsy
3. spot
4. (dated, uncountable) gout

   Synonym: podagra

Derived terms

• gotado
• gotalla
• gotarén
• gotear
• goteira

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gota”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “gota”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gota”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Hyphenation: gò‧ta

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *ga(v)ota. Attested from the 13th century.

Noun

gota f (plural gote) (Tuscan, anatomy)

1. cheek
2. (archaic) mouth

References

• gota in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• gòta in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• gota in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

gota

1. feminine singular of goto

Anagrams

• Tago, tago, toga

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish gota, from Latin gutta.

Noun

gota f (plural gotas)

1. drop

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin gutta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɔta], [ˈɡuta], [ˈɡutə]

Noun

gota

1. drop

Nias

Noun

gota

1. mutated form of ota (“udder”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

gota f (definite singular gota, indefinite plural goter or gotor, definite plural gotene or gotone)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of gote
2. definite singular of gote

Etymology 2

From the noun got n (“spawn”).

Verb

gota (present tense gotar, past tense gota, past participle gota, passive infinitive gotast, present participle gotande, imperative gota/got)

1. (transitive, zoology) to spawn

   Synonym: gyta

Etymology 3

From gote (“hole”).

Verb

gota (present tense gotar, past tense gota, past participle gota, passive infinitive gotast, present participle gotande, imperative gota/got)

1. (transitive) to make a hole (in)

Anagrams

• toga

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan gota, from Latin gutta.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn):

  (file)

Noun

gota f (plural gotas)

1. drop (small amount of a liquid)

Old Norse

Noun

gota

1. accusative/dative/genitive singular of goti

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin gutta.

Noun

gota f (oblique plural gotas, nominative singular gota, nominative plural gotas)

1. drop (small amount of a liquid)
   • c. 1145, Bernard de Ventadour, Conortz, era sai eu be:

     gota d'aiga que chai

     [a] drop of water that falls

Descendants

• Occitan: gota

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin gutta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡota/
• Rhymes: -ota
• Hyphenation: go‧ta

Noun

gota f (plural gotas)

1. drop (small quantity of liquid)
   • 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 195:

     Os mouros, logo que virõ os jnfantes ẽno cãpo, ferirõ os atãbores et veerõ sobre elles tam espessos com̃o as gotas ẽnas chuuyas que caẽ

     The Moors, as they saw the infants on the field, hit they drums and came over them, as thick as drops in the rain

2. spot

   Synonyms: mancha, pinta

3. (pathology, uncountable) gout (inflammation of joints)

Derived terms

• gotado

Descendants

• Fala: gota
• Galician: gota
• Portuguese: gota

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “gota”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “gota”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “gota”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Portuguese

uma gota ― a drop (etymology 1, noun sense 1)

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese gota, from Latin gutta.

Alternative forms

• gôta, gotta (pre-reform spelling)
• gôtta (obsolete)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡo.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡo.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡo.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡo.tɐ/

• Rhymes: -otɐ
• Hyphenation: go‧ta

Noun

gota f (plural gotas, diminutive gotinha, augmentative gotona)

2. drop (small mass of liquid)

   Synonym: pingo

4. (pathology, uncountable) gout (disease characterised by acute inflammatory arthritis)

Derived terms

• a última gota
• gota de água
• gotado
• pseudogota

Related terms

• esgotar
• gotejar
• guta

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.tɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
• Hyphenation: go‧ta

Noun

gota f (uncountable)

1. folk dance from the Minho region in Portugal, similar to the fandango

Further reading

• “gota”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “gota”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Shabo

Verb

gota

1. (transitive) to burn

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish gota, from Latin gutta. Compare English gout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡota/ [ˈɡo.t̪a]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: go‧ta

Noun

gota f (plural gotas)

1. a drop or small amount of
2. (in the plural) eyedrops
3. (medicine) gout
4. (heraldry) goutte

Derived terms

• caer cuatro gotas
• como dos gotas de agua
• cuentagotas
• gota a gota
• gota china
• gota de lluvia
• gota fría
• gota que colmó el vaso
• gotear
• gotera
• gotita
• gotoso
• sudar la gota gorda
• última gota

Further reading

• “gota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Anagrams

• gato, toga

Tabaru

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡo.ta/

Noun

gota

1. wood

   'o gota mangogu ― a piece of wood

References

• Edward A. Kotynski (1988), “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish gota.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɡota/ [ˈɡoː.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: go‧ta

Noun

gota (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜆ)

1. drop (of medicine)

   Synonym: patak

2. (medicine) gout

   Synonyms: piyo, balingtamad

Derived terms

• gotahan
• gotahin

Related terms

• gota-amargas
• gota-serena
• gotakural
• gotera

References

• “gota”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

Anagrams

• toga, taog, tago