sapor
See also: såpor, sapør, Sapor, and Sąpór
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sapor (“taste, flavor”). Doublet of savor.
Noun
sapor (plural sapors)
- (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.
- 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, II:
Anagrams
- Paros, Poras, aspro, praos, proas, psora, rapos, rapso, roaps, sapro-
Latin
Etymology
From sapiō (“taste of, have a flavor of”) + -or.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsa.por/, [ˈs̠äpɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsa.por/, [ˈsäːpor]
Noun
sapor m (genitive sapōris); third declension
- 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 […]
- proderit et tunsum gallae admiscere saporem […]
- 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
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sapor | sapōrēs |
Genitive | sapōris | sapōrum |
Dative | sapōrī | sapōribus |
Accusative | sapōrem | sapōrēs |
Ablative | sapōre | sapōribus |
Vocative | sapor | sapōrēs |
Derived terms
- sapōrātus
- sapōrōsus
Related terms
- sapidē
- sapidus
- sapiēns
- sapienter
- sapientia
- sapientiālis
- sapientipotēns
- sapiō
Descendants
- Catalan: sabor
- Old French: savour
- French: saveur
- → Middle English: savour
- English: savour, savor
- Friulian: savôr
- Italian: sapore
- Occitan: sabor
- Piedmontese: savor
- Portuguese: sabor
- Romanian: savoare
- Sardinian: sabore, sabori, sapore, saore
- Sicilian: sapuri
- Spanish: sabor
- Venetian: saore, saor
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 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray