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gustus

gustus

See also: ĝustus

Esperanto

Verb

gustus

conditional of gusti

Ido

Verb

gustus

conditional of gustar

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus. Cognate with gustō.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡus.tus/

Noun

gustus m ‎(genitive gustūs); fourth declension

taste

Inflection

Fourth declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	gustus	gustūs
genitive	gustūs	gustuum
dative	gustuī	gustibus
accusative	gustum	gustūs
ablative	gustū	gustibus
vocative	gustus	gustūs

Descendants

Aromanian: gustu
Catalan: gust
Dutch: goesting
English: gusto
French: goût, gout
Friulian: gust
Hungarian: gusztus
Italian: gusto
Occitan: gost

Old French: goust
Portuguese: gosto
Polish: gust
Romanian: gust
Romansch: gust, gost
Sardinian: gustu
Sicilian: gustu
Spanish: gusto
Venetian: gusto

References

gustus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
gustus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “gustus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.