gout

Meaning

Noun

1. (uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable, usually) A drop; a spurt or splotch.
3. (countable, rare, uncountable) A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.

Verb

To spurt.

Synonyms

podagra

gouty arthritis

urarthritis

arthritis

rheumatism

melancholy

gout in the feet

paralysis

spavin

hyperuricaemia

tophus

Translations

goutte

💧

gotta

Gicht

gota

gota

jicht

ποδάγρα

αρθρίτιδα

gutta

podagra

gota

artrite

podagra

poagre

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡaʊt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: goute

Cognate with Spanish: gota

In summary

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