gutta
noun
a drop, or something resembling one.
guttae
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pluralof gutta.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Three rows of six guttae each are attached to the under surface of a mutule.
From A History of Greek Art by Frank Bigelow Tarbell
Similar guttae are carved under the mutules of the Doric cornice, representing the pins driven through the mutules to secure the rafters.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
The height of the architrave, including taenia and guttae, is one module, and of the taenia, one seventh of a module.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
The guttae, extending as wide as the triglyphs and beneath the taenia, should hang down for one sixth of a module, including their regula.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
In the Parthenon the frieze takes the place of the internal metopes, of which however a trace remains in the guttae which occur at regular intervals below the frieze, and which imply triglyphs.—Cockerell,
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by A. H. Smith
