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Gusto
Webster 1828 Edition
Gusto
GUST'O
,Noun.
1.
Intellectual taste. [Little used.]Definition 2024
gusto
gusto
English
Noun
gusto (uncountable)
- enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
- He sang with more gusto than talent.
- 1993, Paul Chadwick, The Dictator’s Dream, Dark Horse Books
- And the sound increases … the power grows … gusto becomes something else: rage.
Translations
enthusiasm
Anagrams
Esperanto
Noun
gusto (accusative singular guston, plural gustoj, accusative plural gustojn)
Derived terms
- bongusta (“tasty”)
- gusta (“of or related to taste”)
- gusti (“to have a taste”)
- gustigi (“to taste like”)
Galician
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡus.to/
Verb
gusto
- first-person singular present indicative of gustar
Italian
Etymology
From Latin gustus (“tasting”), from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈgus.to/, [ˈgus̪t̪o]
- Rhymes: -usto
- Hyphenation: gù‧sto
Noun
gusto m (plural gusti)
Synonyms
- (flavour): sapore
Derived terms
Verb
gusto
- first-person singular present of gustare
Latin
Etymology
From unattested *gustus (tasted), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵustós, from *ǵews- (“to taste”). Cognate with gustus (“a taste”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡus.toː/
Verb
gustō (present infinitive gustāre, perfect active gustāvī, supine gustātum); first conjugation
Inflection
Descendants
References
- gusto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- gusto in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “gusto”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have a superficial knowledge, a smattering of literature, of the sciences: primis (ut dicitur) or primoribus labris gustare or attingere litteras
- to have a superficial knowledge, a smattering of literature, of the sciences: primis (ut dicitur) or primoribus labris gustare or attingere litteras
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 399
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡustɔ/
Adverb
gusto (comparative gusćej, superlative nejgusćej)
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡûːsto/
- Hyphenation: gu‧sto
Adverb
gȗsto (Cyrillic spelling гу̑сто)
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin gustus (“tasting”), from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡus.to/
Noun
gusto m (plural gustos)
- taste (sense)
- El gusto es uno de los cinco sentidos.
- Taste is one of the five senses.
- El gusto es uno de los cinco sentidos.
- taste (flavour)
- liking, preference, aesthetic preference
- pleasure, enthusiasm
- Es un gusto que nos visites.
- It’s a pleasure to see you.
- Lo haré con gusto.
- I will do it gladly.
- Es un gusto que nos visites.
- fancy, whim
- Me di el gusto de bailar.
- I enjoyed dancing.
- Me di el gusto de bailar.
Derived terms
- a gusto
- gustar
- gustoso
- gustosamente
- buen gusto
- mal gusto
- mucho gusto
Verb
gusto
References
- “gusto” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima segunda edición, Real Academia Española, 2001.