gusto

Meaning

gustar

  1. (transitive) to taste, to try (determine the flavour of something by putting it in one's mouth)
  2. (transitive) to experiment, to try
  3. (intransitive) to please, to be liked by (takes an indirect object)
  4. (formal, intransitive, uncommon) to like, to enjoy
  5. (transitive) to want, to please

Frequency

A2
Hyphenated as
gus‧to
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɡusto/
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from Latin gustus (“taste”), from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus. Replaced the inherited Old Spanish form gosto. The learned word has a more abstract meaning overall.

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