gusto

Borrowed from Italian gusto, from Latin gustus (“taste”). Doublet of cost (see Etymology 3 there).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡʌstəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡʌstoʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌstəʊ

gusto (uncountable)

1. Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor.

   He sang with more gusto than talent.

   • 1937, Rodgers and Hart (lyrics and music), “Johnny One Note”:

     Sing, Johnny One-Note / Sing out with gusto / And just overwhelm all the crowd

   • 1993, Paul Chadwick, The Dictator’s Dream, Dark Horse Books:

     And the sound increases … the power grows … gusto becomes something else: rage.

   • 2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 August 2019:

     Germany regeared for the second half: same shape, more control. Mexico had lost some of their vim. And before long the game had turned on its head, with Germany able to keep the ball now, Kroos hitting his range, and Mexico less adept at seizing possession, unable to spring forward with such gusto.

2. (rare) An individual's fondness or liking of a particular flavour
   • 1672, William Wycherley, Love in Wood:

     Why should you force wine upon us? We are not all of your gusto.

3. (Of art) The style in which a work is done, artistic style. (occasionally) the prevailing style in matters of taste.
   • 1712, John James (architect), Theory & Practice of Gardening:

     The Designs..are of very mean Gusto.

4. (obsolete) Aesthetic appreciation.
   • 1709, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Moralists:

     Another, who has no Gusto of either sort, believes all those they call Virtuosi to be half-distracted.

5. (obsolete, rare) (Of food) Flavour or savour
   • 1836, Mary Austin Holley, History of Texas:

     Melons of the richest gusto abound everywhere.

• gouts

Borrowed from Spanish gusto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡusto/
• Hyphenation: gus‧to

gústo (plural gurusto, Basahan spelling ᜄᜓᜐ᜔ᜆᜓ) (Naga)

1. to like

   Gusto ko siya.

   I like him/her.

2. to want; to desire

   Gusto ko nin sorbetes.

   I want ice cream.

   Gusto mo bayang mahiling sinda?

   Do you want to see them?

3. to mean something

   Ano an gusto mong sabihon?

   What do you mean? / What do you want to say?

gusto

1. first-person singular present indicative of gustar

From Latin gustus.

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• Rhymes: -usto
• Hyphenation: gus‧to

gusto (accusative singular guston, plural gustoj, accusative plural gustojn)

1. taste
2. flavor

• antaŭgusto (“foretaste”)
• bongusta (“tasty”)
• gusta (“of or related to taste”)
• gusti (“to have a taste”)
• gustigi (“to taste like”)
• gustumi (“to taste, sample”)

Basic tastes in Esperanto · gustoj (layout · text)
dolĉa	acida	sala	amara	akra	bongusta

• gosto

Learned borrowing from Latin gustus.

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gusto m (plural gustos)

1. taste (sense)
2. taste (flavour)
3. liking, preference, aesthetic preference
4. pleasure, enthusiasm
5. fancy, whim

gusto

1. first-person singular present indicative of gustar

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡu.sto/
• Rhymes: -usto
• Hyphenation: gù‧sto

From Latin gustus (“taste”), from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus. It was possibly a semi-learned borrowing.

gusto m (plural gusti)

1. taste (the sense)
2. taste, flavour/flavor

   Synonym: sapore

3. gusto, enjoyment, relish
4. fancy, whim
5. (in the plural) preferences

• cinque sensi

• gustare
• gustativo
• gustoso

• → Alemannic German: Gust
• → English: gusto
• → Serbo-Croatian: gušt

gusto

1. first-person singular present indicative of gustare

From unattested *gustus (“tasted”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵustós, from *ǵews- (“to taste”). Cognate with gustus (“a taste”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡus.toː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡus.to/,

gustō (present infinitive gustāre, perfect active gustāvī, supine gustātum); first conjugation

1. to taste, sample
2. to snack; to whet one's appetite

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• dēgustō
• gustātiō
• praegustō
• regustō

• “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
• gusto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (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
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 399

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡustɔ/

gusto (comparative gusćej, superlative nejgusćej)

1. thickly, densely

• IPA^(key): /ɡûːsto/
• Hyphenation: gu‧sto

gȗsto (Cyrillic spelling гу̑сто)

1. densely

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡusto/

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• Rhymes: -usto
• Syllabification: gus‧to

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.^[1]

gusto m (plural gustos)

1. taste (sense)

   El gusto es uno de los cinco sentidos.

   Taste is one of the five senses.

2. taste (flavour)
3. liking, preference, aesthetic preference
4. pleasure, enthusiasm

   Es un gusto que nos visites.

   It’s a pleasure to see you.

   Lo haré con gusto.

   I will do it gladly.

5. fancy, whim

   Me di el gusto de bailar.

   I enjoyed dancing.

gusto

1. first-person singular present indicative of gustar

• “gusto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Borrowed from Spanish gusto, from Latin gustus.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɡusˈto/ , (rare) /ˈɡusto/
• Rhymes: -o, (rare) -usto
• Syllabification: gus‧to

gustó or gusto (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜐ᜔ᜆᜓ)

1. want; like; desire

   Synonyms: kagustuhan, kursunada, nais, ibig

   Ang gusto ko ay sorbetes.

   What I want is ice cream.

• gusto kita

gustó or gusto (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜐ᜔ᜆᜓ)

1. (pseudoverb) to want; to like

   Synonyms: ibig, nais

   Gusto ko ng sorbetes.

   I want ice cream.

• gusot