saporosus

Latin

Etymology

From sapōr- (“taste”) +‎ -ōsus (“full of”, adjective).

Adjective

sapōrōsus (feminine sapōrōsa, neuter sapōrōsum); first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin)

1. of good flavor

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	sapōrōsus	sapōrōsa	sapōrōsum		sapōrōsī	sapōrōsae	sapōrōsa
genitive	sapōrōsī	sapōrōsae	sapōrōsī		sapōrōsōrum	sapōrōsārum	sapōrōsōrum
dative	sapōrōsō	sapōrōsae	sapōrōsō		sapōrōsīs
accusative	sapōrōsum	sapōrōsam	sapōrōsum		sapōrōsōs	sapōrōsās	sapōrōsa
ablative	sapōrōsō	sapōrōsā	sapōrōsō		sapōrōsīs
vocative	sapōrōse	sapōrōsa	sapōrōsum		sapōrōsī	sapōrōsae	sapōrōsa

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: saporoso
  • Sicilian: sapurusu
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: savorôs
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: saborós
  • French: savoureux
  • Occitan: saborós
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: sabrosu
  • Galician: saboroso
  • Portuguese: saboroso
  • Spanish: sabroso

References

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