English word taste comes from Latin taxare, Latin -ito (Forms frequentative verbs from existing verbs.), Vulgar Latin taxitō
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| taxare | Latin (lat) | |
| -ito | Latin (lat) | Forms frequentative verbs from existing verbs. |
| taxitō | Vulgar Latin (la-vul) | |
| *tastō | Vulgar Latin (la-vul) | |
| taxito | Latin (lat) | |
| *tasto | Latin (lat) | (Vulgar Latin) I touch, feel. |
| taster | Old French (842-ca. 1400) (fro) | To hit; to strike. To taste. To touch. |
| tasten | Middle English (1100-1500) (enm) | |
| taste | English (eng) | (countable, and, uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc. (Wikipedia).. (uncountable, figuratively) 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.. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals (Wikipedia).. [...] |