gutta

noun

gut·ta ˈgə-tə

ˈgu̇-tə

plural guttae ˈgə-ˌtē

ˈgu̇-,

-ˌtī

: one of a series of ornaments in the Doric entablature that is usually in the form of a frustum of a cone

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Its modern name comes from the Latin gutta, a drop of fluid, a term first recorded in the 13th century by an English monk, suggesting that the body’s phlegm had overflowed and flooded the joint — not so far-off from the actual surfeit of uric acid. —