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Galician
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin gustus.
Pronunciation
Noun
gosto m (plural gostos)
- taste (sense)
- taste (flavour)
- liking, preference, aesthetic preference
- pleasure, enthusiasm
- fancy, whim
Verb
gosto
- first-person singular present indicative of gostar
Portuguese
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese gosto, from Latin gustus, from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus.
Pronunciation
Noun
gosto m (plural gostos)
- taste (one of the five senses)
- Visão, audição, olfato, gosto e tato. ― Sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.
- taste, flavour (a sensation produced by the tongue)
- A comida tem um gosto azedo. ― The food has a bitter taste.
- taste (a person's implicit set of preferences, especially aesthetic)
- Tens um bom gosto musical. ― You have good taste in music.
- Gostos não se discutem. ― There's no accounting for taste.
- pleasure, enjoyment
- Muito gosto em conhecê-lo. ― A pleasure to meet you.
- fancy
- Ela tomou o gosto pela dança. ― She took a fancy to dancing.
Quotations
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Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Verb
gosto
- first-person singular present indicative of gostar
2000, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Cálice de Fogo, Rocco, page 71:Gosto de sentir uma brisa saudável nas minhas partes, obrigado.- I like to feel a healthy breeze on my parts, thank you.
Quotations
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Etymology 3
Calque of English like.
Pronunciation
Noun
gosto m (plural gostos)
- (Portugal, social media) like (an individual vote showing support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet)
- Synonyms: like, joinha, (Brazil) curtida