different between zeal vs gusto

English

Etymology

From Middle English zele, from Old French zel, from Late Latin z?lus, from Ancient Greek ????? (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh?- (“to search”). Related to jealous.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /zi?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /zil/
• Rhymes: -i?l

Noun

zeal (countable and uncountable, plural zeals)

1. The fervour or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.

   Synonyms: ardour, eagerness, enthusiasm, intensity, passion

   Antonym: apathy

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Romans 10.2,^[1]

     […] I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

   • 1687, John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, London: Jacob Tonson, Part 3, p. 96,^[2]

     Zeal, the blind conductor of the will

   • 1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 12, pp. 143-144,^[3]

     […] the highest zeal in religion and the deepest hypocrisy, so far from being inconsistent, are often or commonly united in the same individual character.

   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, London: John Murray, Volume 1, Chapter 14, p. 250,^[4]

     [He] would begin admiring her drawings with so much zeal and so little knowledge as seemed terribly like a would-be lover,

   • 1962, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 15, p. 248,^[5]

     The stockman’s zeal for eliminating the coyote has resulted in plagues of field mice, which the coyote formerly controlled.

2. (obsolete) A person who exhibits such fervour or tireless devotion.

   Synonym: zealot

   • 1614, Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, London: Robert Allot, Act V, Scene 5, p. 85,^[6]

     […] like a malicious purblinde zeale as thou art!

   • 1642, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, London: Andrew Crooke, p. 5,^[7]

     […] there are questionlesse both in Greeke, Roman and Africa Churches, solemnities, and ceremonies, whereof the wiser zeales doe make a Christian use, and stand condemned by us;

3. The collective noun for a group of zebras.

   Synonyms: dazzle, herd

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Elza, laze, zale

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