guttur

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gut- (“swelling, rounding; stomach, entrails”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡut.tur/, [ˈɡʊt̪ːʊr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡut.tur/, [ˈɡut̪ːur]

Noun

guttur n (genitive gutturis); third declension

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

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	guttur	guttura
Genitive	gutturis	gutturum
Dative	gutturī	gutturibus
Accusative	guttur	guttura
Ablative	gutture	gutturibus
Vocative	guttur	guttura

Derived terms

• gutturālis
• gutturnium

Descendants

• Galician: goto
• Portuguese: goto
• Romanian: gât
• Sardinian: gutturu
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *gutturiō
  • Catalan: gotirló
  • Old French: goitron
  • >? French: goitre
    • → English: goitre

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.