# gamut
## English
### Etymology

1520s, original sense “lowest note of musical scale”, from Medieval Latin gamma ut, from gamma (“Greek letter, corresponding to the musical note G”) + ut (“first solfège syllable, now replaced by do”). In modern terms, “G do” – the first note of the G scale. Meaning later extended to mean all the notes of a scale, and then more generally any complete range.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡæm.ət/, /ˈɡæm.ɪt/
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* Rhymes: -æmɪt

### Noun

gamut (plural gamuts)
* A (normally) complete range.
** c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):I must begin with rudiments of Art / To teach you gamoth in a briefer sort, - - Bian. Why, I am past my gamouth long agoe.
** 1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Jacob’s Room:The entire gamut of the view's changes should have been known to her; its winter aspect, spring, summer and autumn; how storms came up from the sea; how the moors shuddered and brightened as the clouds went over; she should have noted the red spot where the villas were building; and the criss-cross of lines where the allotments were cut...
** 1933?, Dorothy Parker, review of Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway play The Lake
    She delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.
** 1960 December, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 776:THE LONDON BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. By C. Hamilton Ellis. Ian Allan. 30s. [...] In the course of its pages the author runs through the whole gamut of the locomotives that have during the period under review run on the rails of the L.B. & S.C. and its forebears.
* (music) All the notes in a musical scale.
* All the colours that can be presented by a device such as a monitor or printer.

#### Derived terms

* run the gamut

#### Related terms

* ut

#### Translations

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### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “gamut”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* “gamut”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

## Central Dusun
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut.

### Noun

gamut
* root

## Coastal Kadazan
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut.

### Noun

gamut
* root

## Dibabawon Manobo
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *ʀamut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut (“fibrous roots”).

### Noun

gamut
* root (of a plant)

## Maguindanao
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *ʀamut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut (“fibrous roots”).

### Noun

gamut
* medicine

#### Derived terms

* gamutan
* magamut

## Rungus
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut.

### Noun

gamut
* root

## Tausug
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *ʀamut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut.

### Pronunciation

* (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA: /ɡamut/ [ɡɑˈmut̪̚]
* Rhymes: -ut
* Syllabification: ga‧mut

### Noun

gamut (Sulat Sūg spelling ݢَمُتْ)
* root

## Tobilung
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut.

### Noun

gamut
* root

## Yakan
### Noun

gamut
* root

## Yogad
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *ʀamut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut (“fibrous roots”).

### Noun

gamút
* root (of a plant)