Gothic

Gothic may mean:

As it relates to the Goths (Gothos, Getas), a Germanic tribe:
*Gothic language
*Gothic alphabet

From a Renaissance perspective (originally Italian, gotico, with connotations of "rough, barbarous"), it conveyed the opposite of 'classical' or 'Roman', hence:
* High Medieval northern European art, especially architecture:
**Gothic art
**Gothic architecture
**International Gothic, a subset of Gothic art developed in Burgundy, Bohemia and northern Italy in the late 1300s and early 1400s
**Gothic Revival architecture originating in the 18th century
**Gothic (moth), a species of noctuid moth named after its patterns reminiscent of Gothic architecture
*Gothic script: another name for Blackletter, a script developed in the Middle Ages

From the 18th century, the word came to mean Germanic in general (synonymously with Teutonic), with grim overtones:
* Gothic novel, a British literary genre from the late 18th and early 19th century, with a Victorian revival a hundred years later

From its use in Romanticism, the word in the 20th century came to refer to anything dark or gloomy:
* Gothic horror
* Gothic or Goth subculture
* Gothic rock
* Gothic metal
* Gothic fashion
* Gothic (computer game), a roleplaying computer game
* Gothic (movie), a 1986 film by Ken Russell
* Gothic (album), a 1992 album by the heavy metal band Paradise LostMore recent uses:
* Another name for sans-serif typefaces
* Japanese gothic typeface, a common printing style in Japanese printing
* Gothic Chess, a chess variant

See also

*Gothicismus
*Germanic