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.
   • 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

• Catalan: gutaperxa f
• 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.