gutta-percha

See also: guttapercha and gutta percha

English

Alternative forms

• guttapercha, gutta percha
• guttah (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay getah perca.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡʌɾəˈpɝtʃə/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡʌtəˈpɜːtʃə/

Noun

gutta-percha (countable and uncountable, plural gutta-perchas)

1. An inelastic natural latex, produced from the sap of several tropical trees of the genera Palaquium and Payena.
   • 1855, William Somerville Orr, Orr's Circle of the Sciences, page 205:

     Resin, pitch, sealing-wax, caoutchouc, sulphur, gutta-percha, and generally all bodies commonly termed resinous, besides a great variety of others, will be found to acquire, after friction, the power of attracting light bodies, and hence will be said, according to a limitation of terms already accepted, to be in an electrized or electrified state .

   • 1863, The Football Association Laws, rule 13:

     No player shall be allowed to wear projecting nails, iron plates, or gutta percha on the soles or heels of his boots.

Translations

a latex

• Albanian: gutaperkë f
• Catalan: gutaperxa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 杜仲膠 / 杜仲胶 (zh) (dùzhòngjiāo), 古塔波膠 / 古塔波胶 (gǔtǎbōjiāo), 古塔膠 / 古塔胶 (gǔtǎjiāo)

• Esperanto: gutaperko
• Finnish: guttaperkka (fi)
• Icelandic: gúttaperka n
• Irish: guma peirc m
• Italian: guttaperca (it) f
• Japanese: ガタパーチャ
• Malay: getah perca, getah taban
• Russian: гуттапе́рча (ru) f (guttapérča)
• Serbo-Croatian: gutaperka (sh) f
• Spanish: gutapercha (es) f
• Swedish: guttaperka (sv) c
• Tagalog: gutapertsa

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

gutta-percha f (uncountable)

1. gutta-percha

Further reading

• “gutta-percha”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.