different between taste vs gusto

English

Alternative forms

• tast (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English tasten, borrowed from Old French taster, from assumed Vulgar Latin *tast?re, from assumed Vulgar Latin *taxit?re, a new iterative of Latin tax?re (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch”). Almost displaced native Middle English smaken, smakien (“to taste”) (from Old English smacian (“to taste”)), Middle English smecchen (“to taste, smack”) (from Old English smæ??an (“to taste”)) (whence Modern English smack), Middle English buri?en (“to taste”) (from Old English byrigan, birian (“to taste”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te?st/
• Rhymes: -e?st

Noun

taste (countable and uncountable, plural tastes)

1. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.

2. The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.

3. A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
4. (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.

   • "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."
5. Personal preference; liking; predilection.

6. (uncountable, figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
7. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.

Synonyms

• (sensation produced by the tongue): smack, smatch; See also Thesaurus:gustation
• (set of preferences): discernment, culture, refinement, style
• (personal preference): See also Thesaurus:predilection
• (small amount of experience): impression, sample, trial

Hyponyms

• (sensation produced by the tongue): relish, savor

Meronyms

• (sensation produced by the tongue): bitter, salty, sour, sweet, umami

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

taste (third-person singular simple present tastes, present participle tasting, simple past and past participle tasted)

1. (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.

   • when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine

2. (intransitive, copulative) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.

   The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.

3. To experience.

   I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.

   They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

   • He […] should taste death for every man.
4. To take sparingly.
   • 1699, John Dryden, Epistle to John Drydentastes%20of%20pleasures%2C%20youth%20devours%22&f=false

     Age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.

5. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.

   • I tasted a little of this honey.

6. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.

Synonyms

• (sample the flavor of something): smack, smake; See also Thesaurus:taste
• (have a taste): hint, smack; See also Thesaurus:have taste

Translations

Further reading

• taste in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• taste in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• taste at OneLook Dictionary Search
• "taste" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 313.

Anagrams

• Satet, State, Testa, Tetas, aetts, atest, state, teats, testa

Danish

Etymology

From the noun tast.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ast?

Verb

taste (imperative tast, infinitive at taste, present tense taster, past tense tastede, perfect tense har/er tastet)

1. To type

Conjugation

Derived terms

• indtaste

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

taste

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of tasten

German

Pronunciation

Verb

taste

1. inflection of tasten:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

taste (imperative tast, present tense taster, passive tastes, simple past and past participle tasta or tastet, present participle tastende)

1. to type (on a computer keyboard or typewriter)

Related terms

• tast (noun)
• tastatur

References

• “taste” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• tast, taist

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French tast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?st/, /tast/

Noun

taste (uncountable)

1. perceived flavor

Descendants

• English: taste
• Yola: taaste, tawest, thaaste

References

• “t??st(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

taste (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. vocative singular of tast

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