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Latin
Etymology
From sapor, cf. formations in Silver Latin such as honorus from honor, odorus from odor, and the back-formation decor from decorus competing with older decus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
sapōrus (feminine sapōra, neuter sapōrum); first/second-declension adjective
- (Late Latin) savory, delicious
c. 250 CE – c. 325 CE,
Lactantius,
Divinae Institutiones 3.16.15:
- Et Seneca, Nondum sunt, inquit, mille anni, ex quo initia sapientiae mota sunt. Multis ergo saeculis humanum genus sine ratione vixit. Quod irridens Persius, Postquam, inquit, sapere Urbi / cum pipere et palmis venit, tamquam sapientia cum saporis mercibus fuerit invecta.
- And so Seneca says, It isn't yet a thousand years since the beginnings of wisdom. For many centuries, then, humanity (allegedly) lived without reason. Persius laughed at this saying: After taste (wisdom) came to the City with pepper and palm dates, as if wisdom had been brought in with savory merchandise.
d. 1164, Hugh of Amiens,
Dialogorum libri VIII 1241A, (as cited in "saporus", Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources):
- anima ... tota naribus odora, tota palato sapora, tota corpore sentit palpabilia
- The soul ... perceives all smells with the nose, all savory things with the palate, all that can be sensed by touch with the body.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “saporus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “saporus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- saporus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.