Extinct Germanic language spoken by the Goths. Its records antedate those of other Germanic languages by about four centuries. Best known from a translation of the Bible into Gothic in AD 350, it died out among the Ostrogoths after the fall of their kingdom in Italy in the 6th century and among the Visigoths around the time of the Arab conquest in 711. It persisted longer in the Crimea, where a form of Gothic was spoken as late as the 16th century.

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Gothic or Goth may refer to:

Germanic persons

Originally, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes.

• The Goths –
• the Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language, spoken by the Goths
• the Crimean Gothic, Gothic language spoken by the Crimean Goths
• the Gothic alphabet, one of the alphabets used to write the Gothic language

Late Medieval art

In the Late Middle Ages, "Germanic" (as opposed to "Romance")

• Gothic art, a Medieval art movement
• International Gothic, a subset of Gothic art developed in Burgundy, Bohemia and northern Italy in the late 1300s and early 1400s
• Gothic architecture
• Gothic Revival architecture originating in the 18th century, in its early, fanciful phase sometimes spelled "Gothick"
• Brick Gothic-a reduced style of Gothic architecture in Northern Europe, especially in the regions around the Baltic Sea without natural rock resources.
• Carpenter Gothic
• Polish Gothic
• Portuguese Late Gothic (Manueline)
• Blackletter (Gothic script), a script developed in the Middle Ages

Romanticism

From the 18th century, the word came to gloomy or grim overtones in Romanticism:

• Gothic Romanticism
• Gothic fiction, a British literary genre from the late 18th and early 19th century, with a Victorian revival a hundred years later.
• Gothic horror, a subgenre of film which combines elements of horror and romance in gothic settings
• Southern Gothic The dark and horrific genre of literature based in the Southern USA
• Southern Ontario Gothic
• Gothic double - literary concept

Goth subculture

The Goth subculture, developed on the foundations of Gothic rock.

• Gothic rock is a kind of rock music, sometimes with rather gloomy overtones.
• Goth slang
• Gothic aesthetics
• Gothic fashion
• Gothic Lolita

Sans-serif typeface

"Gothic" is another name for sans-serif typefaces (especially in US usage)

• Century Gothic
• Franklin Gothic
• News Gothic
• Copperplate Gothic
• Bank Gothic
• Benguiat Gothic
• East Asian gothic typeface, a common printing style in East Asian printing

Other

• Gothic (moth), a species of noctuid moth named after its patterns reminiscent of Gothic architecture
• Gothic metal, a genre of music which combines the dark melancholy of goth rock with the aggression of Heavy Metal.
• Gothics, one of the Adirondack High Peaks in New York.
• Gothic (film), Ken Russell film.
• Goth (Silverwing Character), a fictional bat from the Silverwing series of novels
• Goth (novel), a Japanese novel, which was adapted into a manga
• Gothic F.C., a football club based in Norwich, England
• Gothic (video game) developed by Piranha Bytes followed by two sequels Gothic II and Gothic 3
• SS Gothic, a Corinthic-class passenger and cargo liner, used as a royal yacht by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom in the 1950s
• Goth (board game), a game based on horror trivia and pop-culture

See also

• Gothenburg (disambiguation)
• Gothicismus
• Sturm und Drang
• Gothika
• American Gothic (disambiguation)
• Gothicmed