## Meanings
1. A painful disease that swells the joints, especially the big toe, caused by too much uric acid in the body.
2. A drop or splash of liquid, especially blood.

## Examples
- Years of rich food and wine left him suffering from gout.
- Dark gouts of blood marked the trail.

## Derived Forms
- antigout
- gout-ridden
- goutiness
- goutish
- goutless
- goutweed
- goutwort
- gouty
- pseudogout

## Related Forms
- gutter

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: goute
- Root: gote
- Root: gutta

## 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".

## AI Etymology
Gout is 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". Important recorded forms include goute (Middle English), gote (Old French), and gutta (Latin). Current senses include a painful disease that swells the joints, especially the big toe, caused by too much uric acid in the body and a drop or splash of liquid, especially blood. The wider family includes derived forms such as antigout, gout-ridden, goutiness, goutish, and goutless and related words such as gutter.

## Topics
- The Human Body
- Materials & Substances

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