degustatio

Latin

Etymology

From dēgustō +‎ -tiō (“taste”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deː.ɡusˈtaː.ti.oː/, [d̪eːɡʊs̠ˈt̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de.ɡusˈtat.t͡si.o/, [d̪eɡusˈt̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

dēgustātiō f (genitive dēgustātiōnis); third declension

1. a tasting

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dēgustātiō	dēgustātiōnēs
genitive	dēgustātiōnis	dēgustātiōnum
dative	dēgustātiōnī	dēgustātiōnibus
accusative	dēgustātiōnem	dēgustātiōnēs
ablative	dēgustātiōne	dēgustātiōnibus
vocative	dēgustātiō	dēgustātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: degustació
• French: dégustation
• Galician: degustación
• Italian: degustazione
• Portuguese: degustação
• Spanish: degustación

References

• “degustatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• degustatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.