One picture can hold most of this word: a tall stone church from the European Middle Ages. Everything about it goes up and comes to a point — the arches, the windows, the thin columns. It is dark inside, heavy, and not at all like the calm, rounded buildings of ancient Greece and Rome. That contrast is the key. People who admired the classical world used Gothic as their name for everything medieval and un-classical: buildings like this, the thick black letters in medieval books, and later the stories set in places like this. The modern black-clothes style keeps the same mood — dark, dramatic, a little grand.
From Late Latin gothicus 'of the Goths, barbaric', from Greek Gotthoi 'Goths' — that is, Goth + -ic. The several modern uses of the adjective all appear in the first half of the 17th century; the literal 'of the Goths' is recorded in the 1611 preface to the King James Bible, referring to the 'Gothicke tongue'.
來自晚期拉丁文 gothicus「哥德人的、粗野的」，再往上是希臘文 Γότθοι「哥德人」，也就是 Goth 加 -ic。形容詞的各種用法幾乎同時在十七世紀上半葉出現；字面義「哥德人的」見於一六一一年欽定本聖經序言中的 Gothicke tongue。
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Three branches
建築：往上收成尖角
這是最能抓住的畫面，也是今天最常遇到的用法：尖拱、高窗、細柱。
adjective · B2
Built in, or made to look like, the style of building that was common in western Europe from about the 1100s to the 1500s, with tall pointed arches, high pointed windows, and tall thin stone columns.
哥德式的（建築）
陰暗的故事與陰暗的打扮
從建築的畫面搬到氣氛：老教堂和城堡讓人不安，於是「發生在那種地方的故事」也叫哥德，之後連那種陰暗華麗的打扮都一起借用了這個名字。
adjective · B2
Used about a story, film, or piece of art that is built around frightening and mysterious things — old buildings, ruins, storms, secrets, lonely places — in the style that became popular in the early 1800s.
哥德式的（陰森故事）
字體：兩種相反的哥德
同樣是「中世紀的、不古典的」這個標記，被搬到字母的形狀上：中世紀抄本的粗黑尖角字，相對於古羅馬那種圓潤的字。
adjective · C1
Written or printed in heavy old-looking letters with thick strokes and sharp decorated edges — the kind of lettering seen on old newspaper names, certificates, and band logos.
哥德體的（字體）