sapor

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sapor (“taste, flavor”).

Noun

sapor (plural sapors)

1. (now rare) A type of taste (sweetness, sourness etc.); loosely, taste, flavor.
   • 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, II:

     But, though the savour bee so base, the sapor is so excellent, that no meat, no sauce, no vessell pleases the Guzurats pallat, save what relishes of it.

Anagrams

• proas

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Latin

Etymology

From sapiō (“taste of, have a flavor of”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈsa.por/

Noun

sapor (genitive sapōris); m, third declension

1. A taste, flavor, savor.
   • 29 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon, liber IV: 267

     proderit et tunsum gallae admiscere saporem […]

     It’ is good too to blend a taste of pounded oak-apples […]

2. A sense of taste.
3. A smell, scent, odor.
4. (usually plural) That which tastes good; a delicacy, dainty.
5. (figuratively) An elegance of style or character.

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	sapor	sapōrēs
genitive	sapōris	sapōrum
dative	sapōrī	sapōribus
accusative	sapōrem	sapōrēs
ablative	sapōre	sapōribus
vocative	sapor	sapōrēs

Derived terms

• sapōrātus
• sapōrōsus

Related terms

sapidē sapidus sapiēns sapienter

sapientia sapientiālis sapientipotēns sapiō

Descendants

Catalan: sabor English: savor French: saveur Italian: sapore

Portuguese: sabor Romanian: savoare Sicilian: sapuri Spanish: sabor

References

• sapor in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879