English Explanatory Dictionary

gout

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.
  2. A drop; a spurt or splotch.
  3. A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.
verb
  1. To spurt.
noun
  1. Alternative form of gote (“sluice, ditch, drain; vault”).
noun
  1. Taste; relish.

Pronunciation

/ɡaʊt/ en-us-gout.ogg [ɡʌut] En-ca-gout.ogg

Word forms

gout gouts gowt gouting gouted

Etymology

From Middle English goute, from Old French gote, gute, from Latin gutta (“drop”). Compare Spanish gota (“drop, droplet”). Doublet of goutte and gutta. The sense shift derived from humorism and "the notion of the 'dropping' of a morbid material from the blood in and around the joints".

Synonyms

crystalline arthritis gouty arthritis urarthritis rich man's disease

Related words

gutter chacun a son gout haut gout

Derived words

antigout French gout gout fly goutiness goutish gout ivy goutless gout plant gout-ridden gout stalk goutweed goutwort gouty pseudogout

Translations

Albanian: gutë Albanian: podagër Arabic: رَثْيَة Arabic: نِقْرِس Armenian: հոդատապ Armenian: պոդագրա Azerbaijani: podaqra Basque: hezueri Bulgarian: подагра Catalan: gota Chinese Cantonese: 痛風 /痛风 Chinese Mandarin: 痛風 /痛风 Czech: dna Czech: pakostnice Danish: gigt Dutch: jicht Elfdalian: djikt Esperanto: podagro Faroese: gikt Finnish: kihti French: goutte Galician: gota Georgian: ნიკრისის ქარი German: Gicht Greek: ποδάγρα Greek: ουρική αρθρίτιδα Ancient Greek: ποδάγρα Greenlandic: gigti Greenlandic: avallunneq Hebrew: שגדון Hindi: वातरक्त Hungarian: köszvény Icelandic: gigt Indonesian: asam urat Indonesian: gout Indonesian: pirai Italian: gotta Italian: podagra Japanese: 痛風 Kazakh: тұзжиналу Korean: 통풍 Lao: ເກົາ Latin: podagra Latin: gutta Latvian: podagra Lithuanian: podagra Luxembourgish: Giicht Macedonian: гихт Macedonian: подагра Malay: gout Māori: porohau Māori: koute
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