gustus

See also: ĝustus

Esperanto

Verb

gustus

1. conditional of gusti

Ido

Verb

gustus

1. conditional of gustar

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus (“taste”). 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.

	singular	plural
nominative	gustus	gustūs
genitive	gustūs	gustuum
dative	gustuī	gustibus
accusative	gustum	gustūs
ablative	gustū	gustibus
vocative	gustus	gustūs

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: gustu
• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: gustu, yustu
  • Romanian: gust
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Italian: gusto (see there for further descendants)
  • Sicilian: gustu
  • Venetan: gusto
    • ⇒ Cimbrian: güsten
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: gust
  • Romansch: gust, gost
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: gust
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: gust (possibly a learned borrowing)
  • Occitan: gost
  • Old French: goust
    • Middle French: goust
      • French: goût (see there for further descendants)
      • → Dutch: goeste (archaic)
      • → West Flemish: goeste
    • Norman: goût
    • Walloon: gosse
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: gosto
    • Galician: gusto, gosto
    • Portuguese: gosto
  • Old Spanish: gosto

Borrowings

• → Hungarian: gusztus
• → Middle English: gust, guste
  • English: gust
  • Scots: gust
• → Polish: gust
• → Spanish: gusto

Further reading

• “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.