English

Noun

gusto ‎(uncountable)

1. enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor

   He sang with more gusto than talent.

   • 1993, Paul Chadwick, The Dictator’s Dream, Dark Horse Books

     And the sound increases … the power grows … gusto becomes something else: rage.

Translations

Anagrams

• gouts

Catalan

Verb

gusto

1. first-person singular present indicative form of gustar

Esperanto

Noun

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

1. taste
2. flavor

Derived terms

• bongusta ‎(“tasty”)
• gusta ‎(“of or related to taste”)
• gusti ‎(“to have a taste”)
• gustigi ‎(“to taste like”)

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡus.to/

Verb

gusto

1. first-person singular present indicative of gustar

Italian

Etymology

From Latin gustus ‎(“tasting”), from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈgus.to/, [ˈgus̪t̪o]
• Rhymes: -usto
• Hyphenation: gù‧sto

Noun

gusto m ‎(plural gusti)

1. taste (the sense)
2. taste, flavour
3. gusto, enjoyment, relish
4. fancy, whim
5. (plural) preferences

Synonyms

• (flavour): sapore

Derived terms

• gustare
• gustativo
• gustoso

Verb

gusto

1. first-person singular present 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/

Verb

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

1. I taste, sample.
2. I snack; I whet my appetite.

Inflection

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “gusto”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, 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

Etymology

From Latin gustus ‎(“tasting”), from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡus.to/

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

• a gusto
• gustar
• gustoso
• gustosamente
• buen gusto
• mal gusto
• mucho gusto

Verb

gusto

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of gustar.

References

• “gusto” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima segunda edición, Real Academia Española, 2001.