gutta
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覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
gutta はラテン語で「滴」を表し、建築ではドーリア式の軒下などに並ぶ滴形の小突起を指します。複数形はラテン語式の guttae。雨水の「滴」を受ける gutter や、古い病因説で液滴と結び付けられた gout との語源的なつながりを手掛かりに覚えましょう。
Connect gutta with the concrete image of a drop. In classical architecture, a gutta is a small projection shaped rather like a hanging drop, commonly seen in ordered rows beneath parts of a Doric entablature. This visual link reflects the original Latin meaning rather than an invented sound association. Also remember the specialist plural guttae, not guttas in careful architectural usage. The historically related words gutter and gout preserve different developments of the same idea of a drop or flowing liquid.
gutta の類義語・関連語
gutta の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語 gutta（滴・しずく）に由来。建築用語では軒下の装飾的な小突起を指し、医学では「痛風」を意味する gout（体液の一滴が関節に落ちるという古い病因説）と同根。gutter（雨どい）も同語源。
Gutta is a direct borrowing of Latin gutta, meaning “drop.” Classical architectural terminology applied it to each of the small drop-like projections beneath elements of a Doric entablature. Its conventional plural, guttae, also preserves Latin morphology. Gout is historically connected through the former belief that a drop of bodily fluid caused the disease, while gutter belongs to the same broader word history.
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