sapor
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin sapor (“taste, flavor”). Doublet of savor.
Noun edit
sapor (plural sapors)
- (now rare) A type of taste (sweetness, sourness etc.); loosely, taste, flavor.
- 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section 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 edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From sapiō (“taste of, have a flavor of”) + -or.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsa.por/, [ˈs̠äpɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsa.por/, [ˈsäːpor]
Noun edit
sapor m (genitive sapōris); third declension
- A taste, flavor, savor.
- A sense of taste.
- A smell, scent, odor.
- (usually in the plural) That which tastes good; a delicacy, dainty.
- (figuratively) An elegance of style or character.
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sapor | sapōrēs |
Genitive | sapōris | sapōrum |
Dative | sapōrī | sapōribus |
Accusative | sapōrem | sapōrēs |
Ablative | sapōre | sapōribus |
Vocative | sapor | sapōrēs |
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References edit
- “sapor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sapor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sapor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- sapor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “sapor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sapor”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray