sapor
Appearance
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English sapour, sapoure, from Latin sapor. Doublet of savour / savor.
Noun
[edit]sapor (plural sapors)
- (now rare) A type of taste (sweetness, sourness etc.); loosely, taste, flavor.
- 1638, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. […], 2nd edition, London: […] R[ichard] Bi[sho]p for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book II, page 125:
- 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 Latin) 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.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | sapor | sapōrēs |
genitive | sapōris | sapōrum |
dative | sapōrī | sapōribus |
accusative | sapōrem | sapōrēs |
ablative | sapōre | sapōribus |
vocative | sapor | sapōrēs |
Derived terms
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[edit]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
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