different between relish vs gusto

English

Etymology

Alteration of reles (“scent, taste, aftertaste”), from Old French relais, reles (“something remaining, that which is left behind”), from relaisser (“to leave behind”).

Alternative forms

• rellish (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /???.l??/

Noun

relish (countable and uncountable, plural relishes)

1. A pleasant taste
   • 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 12.

     A Laplander or Negro has no notion of the relish of wine.
2. enjoyment; pleasure.
3. A quality or characteristic tinge.
4. (followed by "for") A taste (for); liking (of); fondness.
   • 1849, Thomas Macaulay, History of England, Chapter 11:

     One of the first acts which he was under the necessity of performing must have been painful to a man of so generous a nature, and of so keen a relish for whatever was excellent in arts and letters.

   • 1785, William Cowper, letter to the Rev. John Newton (dated December 10, 1785)

     I have a relish for moderate praise, because it bids fair to be judicious.
5. A cooked or pickled sauce, usually made with vegetables or fruits, generally used as a condiment.
6. In a wooden frame, the projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece.
7. Something that is greatly liked or savoured.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:seasoning

Derived terms

• India relish

Translations

Verb

relish (third-person singular simple present relishes, present participle relishing, simple past and past participle relished)

1. (transitive) To taste or eat with pleasure, to like the flavor of [from 16th c.]
2. (transitive) to take great pleasure in.

   He relishes their time together.

   I don't relish the idea of going out tonight.

   • Now I begin to relish thy advice.

   • 1706, Francis Atterbury, A sermon preached at the Guild-Hall Chapel, September 28, 1706

     He knows how to prize his advantages, and to relish the honours which he enjoys.

3. (obsolete, intransitive) To taste; to have a specified taste or flavour. [16th-19th c.]
   • Had I been the finder-out of this secret, it would not have relish'd among my other discredits.

   • 1695, John Woodward, An essay toward a natural history of the earth

     A theory, which, how much soever it may relish of wit and invention, hath no foundation in nature.

4. (transitive) To give a taste to; to cause to taste nice, to make appetizing. [from 16th c.]
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To give pleasure.

Synonyms

(take pleasure in): : appreciate, delight in, enjoy, like, revel in

Derived terms

• disrelish
• relishable
• relisher

Translations

References

• relish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Hilers, Riehls, Rishel, hirsel

French

Etymology

From English relish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e.li?/

Noun

relish f (uncountable)

1. relish (pickled sauce)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian gusto, from Latin gustus (“tasting”). Doublet of cost.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???st??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???sto?/
• Rhymes: -?st??

Noun

gusto (uncountable)

1. Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor.
   • 1993, Paul Chadwick, The Dictator’s Dream, Dark Horse Books

     And the sound increases … the power grows … gusto becomes something else: rage.

Translations

Anagrams

• gouts

Bikol Central

Verb

gusto

1. to want, to like

   Synonyms: muya, suno

Catalan

Verb

gusto

1. first-person singular present indicative form of gustar

Esperanto

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??usto/
• Hyphenation: gus?to
• Rhymes: -usto

Noun

gusto (accusative singular guston, plural gustoj, accusative plural gustojn)

1. taste
2. flavor

Derived terms

• anta?gusto (“foretaste”)
• bongusta (“tasty”)
• gusta (“of or related to taste”)
• gusti (“to have a taste”)
• gustigi (“to taste like”)

Galician

Alternative forms

• gosto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gustus.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): [??us?.t??]
• (dialectal) IPA^(key): [??us?.t??]

Noun

gusto m (plural gustos)

1. taste (sense)
2. taste (flavour)
3. liking, preference, aesthetic preference
4. pleasure, enthusiasm
5. fancy, whim

Verb

gusto

1. first-person singular present indicative of gustar

Italian

Etymology

From Latin gustus (“tasting”), from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *?éwstus. It was possibly a semi-learned borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??us.to/
• Rhymes: -usto
• Hyphenation: gù?sto

Noun

gusto m (plural gusti)

1. taste (the sense)
2. taste, flavour

   Synonym: sapore

3. gusto, enjoyment, relish
4. fancy, whim
5. (in the plural) preferences

Hypernyms

• cinque sensi

Derived terms

• gustare
• gustativo
• gustoso

Descendants

• ? Alemannic German: Gust
• ? English: gusto
• ? Serbo-Croatian: gušt

Verb

gusto

1. first-person singular present of gustare

Latin

Etymology

From unattested *gustus (tasted), from Proto-Indo-European *?ustós, from *?ews- (“to taste”). Cognate with gustus (“a taste”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??us.to?/, [???s?t?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??us.to/, [??ust??]

Verb

gust? (present infinitive gust?re, perfect active gust?v?, supine gust?tum); first conjugation

1. I taste, sample.
2. I snack; I whet my appetite.

Conjugation

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Derived terms

• d?gust?
• gust?ti?
• praegust?
• regust?

Descendants

References

• gusto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gusto in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gusto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, ?ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 399

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ust?/

Adverb

gusto (comparative gus?ej, superlative nejgus?ej)

1. thickly, densely

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?û?sto/
• Hyphenation: gu?sto

Adverb

g?sto (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. densely

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gustus (“tasting”), from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *?éwstus. Replaced the inherited Old Spanish form gosto. The learned word has a more abstract meaning overall.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??usto/, [??us.t?o]

Noun

gusto m (plural gustos)

1. taste (sense)

2. taste (flavour)
3. liking, preference, aesthetic preference
4. pleasure, enthusiasm

5. fancy, whim

Derived terms

Verb

gusto

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of gustar.

References

• “gusto” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish gusto.

Noun

gusto

1. want, like, desire

   Synonyms: kagustuhan, kursonada, nais, ibig

Verb

gusto

1. to want; like

   Synonyms: ibig, nais

Usage notes

• The verb gusto is considered as a pseudo-verb, which is a word that acts like a verb but has no affixes attached to it, and therefore does not conjugate. It is considered to be the more casual equivalent to nais and ibig.

Derived terms