gusto

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ʌstəʊ

Noun

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.

Translations

Anagrams

• gouts

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish gusto.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

gústo (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?

Synonyms

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Derived terms

Related terms

Catalan

Verb

gusto

1. first-person singular present indicative of gustar

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin gustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -usto
• Hyphenation: gus‧to

Noun

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

1. taste
2. flavor

Derived terms

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

See also

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

Galician

Alternative forms

• gosto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gustus.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key):
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Noun

gusto m (plural gustos)

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

Verb

gusto

1. first-person singular present indicative of gustar

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

Hypernyms

• cinque sensi

Derived terms

• gustare
• gustativo
• gustoso

Descendants

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

Etymology 2

Verb

gusto

1. first-person singular present indicative 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/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡus.to/,

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

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

Derived terms

• dēgustō
• gustātiō
• praegustō
• regustō

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
• 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

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡustɔ/

Adverb

gusto (comparative gusćej, superlative nejgusćej)

1. thickly, densely

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

gȗsto (Cyrillic spelling гу̑сто)

1. densely

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡusto/

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -usto
• Syllabification: gus‧to

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

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.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

gusto

1. first-person singular present indicative of gustar

References

Further reading

• “gusto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish gusto, from Latin gustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡusˈto/,

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

Noun

gustó (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜐ᜔ᜆᜓ)

1. want; like; desire

   Synonyms: kagustuhan, kursunada, nais, ibig

   Ang gusto ko ay sorbetes.

   What I want is ice cream.

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

• gusto kita

Verb

gustó or gusto (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜐ᜔ᜆᜓ)

1. (pseudoverb) to want; to like

   Synonyms: ibig, nais

   Gusto ko ng sorbetes.

   I want ice cream.

Anagrams

• gusot