A drop of liquid; in architecture, a small ornamental droplet on a Doric entablature; in medicine, a unit of liquid measure.
From Latin 'gutta' meaning drop, from Proto-Indo-European root meaning to pour. Used as a technical term across medicine, architecture, and pharmacy.
The Latin word 'gutta' is everywhere in specialized vocabularies—guttatim means drop-by-drop, guttate means spotted like drops—showing how one ancient word for 'drop' generated an entire technical family of drop-related terms.
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