guttula

guttula (plural guttulae)

1. (formal) A droplet.
   • 1822, The Quarterly Journal of Foreign and British Medicine and Surgery, volume 4, page 341:

     The sputa, during pneumonorrhagia and peripneumony, is often yellow also, not from bile, but from the guttulæ of blood; […]

From gutta +‎ -ula (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡʊt.tʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡut̪.t̪u.la]

guttula f (genitive guttulae); first declension

1. droplet

First-declension noun.

• “guttula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• guttula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.