taste
English
/teɪst/
noun
Definitions
- One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
- The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
- A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
- (countable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
- Personal preference; liking; predilection.
- (uncountable) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
- A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English tasten derived from Old French taster derived from Latin *tastāre, *taxitāre, taxāre, taxo (touch sharply, feel, touch).
Origin
Latin
taxāre, taxo
Gloss
touch sharply, feel, touch
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- aftertaste English
- ale-taster English
- aletaster English
- attaste English
- bud English
- distaste English
- distasteful English
- distasture English
- foretaste English
- foretaster English
- intastable English
- maker English
- making English
- mistaste English
- nontaster English
- nontasting English
- pretaste English
- retaste English
- semitasteful English
- supertaster English
- supertasting English
- tastable English
- tasteable English
- tastebud English
- tasteful English
- tastefully English
- tastefulness English
- tasteless English
- tastelessly English
- tastelessness English
- tastemaker English
- tastemaking English
- taster English
- tastest English
- tasteth English
- tastewise English
- tastily English
- tastiness English
- tasting English
- tasty English
- undertaste English
- untaste English
- untasteable English
- untasteful English
- untasty English
- winetaster English
- winetasting English
- *tagicare Latin
- *tasto, *tastare Latin
- *tasto, *tastāre, *tastō Latin
- *tastāre Latin
- *taxitāre Latin
- tastō Latin
- taxitō Latin
- taxāre Latin
- taxāre, taxo Latin
- abtasten German
- antasten German
- tasten German
- taxieren German
- tastare Italian
- tasto Italian
- tâter French
- *taiknaz Proto-Germanic
- テイスト Japanese
- atasten Middle English
- fortaste Middle English
- mistasten Middle English
- tastable Middle English
- tasten Middle English
- tastynge Middle English
- tástáil Irish
- ataster Old French
- taster Old French
- tasten Middle Dutch
- tasten Middle High German
- tasten Middle Low German
- tastar Old Occitan
- tasta Old Frisian
- tastar Venetian
- testim Tok Pisin
- bud
- tasty
- maker
- taster
- making
- untasty
- tastest
- tasteth
- tasting
- retaste
- attaste
- tastily
- untaste
- tastebud
- distaste
- tastable
- pretaste
- mistaste
- tasteful
- aletaster
- foretaste
- nontaster
- tasteless
- tastiness
- tastewise
- tasteable
- intastable
- foretaster
- winetaster
- undertaste
- aftertaste
- tastemaker
- distasture
- tastefully
- untasteful
- nontasting
- ale-taster
- tastemaking
- untasteable
- winetasting
- tastelessly
- supertaster
- distasteful
- supertasting
- tastefulness
- semitasteful
- tastelessness