goutte

Borrowed from Old French goutte, goute, gote. Doublet of gout.

• IPA^(key): /ɡuːt/

goutte (plural gouttes)

1. (heraldry) A charge in the form of a teardrop shape, originally with wavy sides, but now often with straight sides.

• get out, get-out

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.

• IPA^(key): /ɡut/

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goutte f (plural gouttes)

1. droplet
2. (heraldry) goutte
3. gout (disease)

goutte

1. (obsolete, used with "ne") not

   Il ne parloit goutte

   He did not talk at all

• pas (contemporary French)
• mie (obsolete)

• compte-gouttes
• égoutter
• gouttelette f

• “goutte” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old French gote, goutte, gote, gute.

goutte f (plural gouttes)

1. (heraldry) goutte (droplike shape)

• French: goutte