sapor

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See also: såpor, sapør, Sapor, and Sąpór

English

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Etymology

From Middle English sapour, sapoure, from Latin sapor. Doublet of savour / savor.

Noun

sapor (plural sapors)

  1. (now rare) A type of taste (sweetness, sourness etc.); loosely, taste, flavor.
    • 1638, Tho Herbert, Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. , 2nd edition, London: R Bip for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book II, page 125:
      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.

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Latin

Etymology

From sapiō (taste of, have a flavor of) +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

Noun

sapor m (genitive sapōris); third declension

  1. A taste, flavor, savor.
    • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 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. (usually in the plural) That which tastes good; a delicacy, dainty.
  5. (figuratively) An elegance of style or character.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative sapor sapōrēs
genitive sapōris sapōrum
dative sapōrī sapōribus
accusative sapōrem sapōrēs
ablative sapōre sapōribus
vocative sapor sapōrēs

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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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • sapor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, 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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray