English

Noun

sapor ‎(plural sapors)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• proas

Latin

Etymology

From sapiō ‎(“taste of, have a flavor of”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.por/

Noun

sapor m ‎(genitive sapōris); third declension

1. 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 […]

2. A sense of taste.
3. A smell, scent, odor.
4. (chiefly in the plural) That which tastes good; a delicacy, dainty.
5. (figuratively) An elegance of style or character.

Inflection

Third declension.

Derived terms

• sapōrātus
• sapōrōsus

Related terms

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sapor”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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