sapor

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sapor (“taste, flavor”). Doublet of savor.

Noun

sapor (plural sapors)

1. (now rare) A type of taste (sweetness, sourness etc.); loosely, taste, flavor.
   • 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, 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

• Paros, aspro, praos, proas, psora, rapso, roaps, sapro-

Etymology

From sapiō (“taste of, have a flavor of”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.por/

Noun

sapor m (genitive sapōris); third declension

1. A taste, flavor, savor.
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon 4.267

     proderit et tunsum gallae admiscere saporem […]

     It’ is good too to blend a taste of pounded oak-apples […]

2. A sense of taste.
3. A smell, scent, odor.
4. (usually in the plural) That which tastes good; a delicacy, dainty.
5. (figuratively) An elegance of style or character.

References

• 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, 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray