gustus

See also: ĝustus

Esperanto

Verb

gustus

1. conditional of gusti

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Ido

Verb

(deprecated template usage) gustus

1. conditional of gustar

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Latin

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus. Cognate with gustō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡus.tus/, [ˈɡʊs̠t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡus.tus/, [ˈɡust̪us]

Noun

gustus m (genitive gustūs); fourth declension

1. taste

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	gustus	gustūs
Genitive	gustūs	gustuum
Dative	gustuī	gustibus
Accusative	gustum	gustūs
Ablative	gustū	gustibus
Vocative	gustus	gustūs

Descendants

• Aromanian: gustu, yustu
• Friulian: gust
• Italian: gusto
  • → Alemannic German: Gust
  • → English: gusto
  • → Serbo-Croatian: gušt
• Old French: goust
  • Middle French: goust
    • French: goût (see there for further descendants)
    • → Dutch: goeste (archaic)
    • → West Flemish: goeste
  • Norman: goût
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: gust (perhaps a learned borrowing)
  • Occitan: gost
• Old Galician-Portuguese: gosto
  • Portuguese: gosto
  • Galician: gusto
• Romanian: gust
• Romansch: gust, gost
• Sardinian: gustu
• Sicilian: gustu
• Venetian: gusto
• → Dutch: goeste
• → Hungarian: gusztus
• → Polish: gust
• → Spanish: gusto
• → West Flemish: goeste

References

• “gustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gustus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.