taste

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
2. The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
3. A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
4. A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
5. Personal preference; liking; predilection.
6. A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
7. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.

Verb

1. To sample the flavor of something orally.
2. To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.
3. To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.
4. To experience.
5. To take sparingly.
6. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
7. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.

Adj

Deliberate misspelling of tasty.

Concepts

goût

goûter

saveur

dégustation

déguster

savourer

examen organoleptique

sentir

gouter

gustation

essayer

penchant

préférence

sens du goût

gout

goûts

bon goût

raffinement

élégance

connaître

lécher

examiner

reconnaître

priser

tenter

bouchée

gorgée

avant-goût

vogue

flaveur

écouter

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/teɪst/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Middle English tasten, borrowed from Old French taster, from assumed Vulgar Latin *tastāre, from assumed Vulgar Latin *taxitāre, a new iterative of Latin taxāre (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-. Almost displaced native Middle English smaken, smakien (“to taste”) (from Old English smacian (“to taste”)), Middle English smecchen (“to taste, smack”) (from Old English smæċċan (“to taste”)) (whence Modern English smack), Middle English buriȝen (“to taste”) (from Old English byrigan, birian (“to taste”)).

Phrases

The coffee had a very strong taste .

Le café avait un goût très fort.