guttur

Latin

Etymology

Unknown. The traditional etymology from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve”) is unlikely, and the unexplained geminate suffix is suspicious.

Pronunciation

Noun

guttur n (genitive gutturis); third declension

  1. (anatomy) throat, neck, gullet
  2. gluttony

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

singular plural
nominative guttur guttura
genitive gutturis gutturum
dative gutturī gutturibus
accusative guttur guttura
ablative gutture gutturibus
vocative guttur guttura

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Galician: goto
  • Portuguese: goto
  • Romanian: gât
  • Romansch: gutter
  • Sardinian: gutturu
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *gutturiō
  • >? Italian: gozzo

References

  • “guttur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “guttur”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "guttur", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • guttur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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