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5-letter words (2 found)

GOUTS,GUSTO,

4-letter words (9 found)

GOUT,GUST,GUTS,OUST,OUTS,SOUT,SUGO,TOGS,TUGS,

3-letter words (14 found)

GOS,GOT,GUS,GUT,OUS,OUT,SOG,SOT,SOU,SUG,TOG,TUG,UGS,UTS,

2-letter words (10 found)

GO,GU,OS,OU,SO,ST,TO,UG,US,UT,

You can make 35 words from gusto according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of gusto

gusto ugsto gsuto sguto usgto sugto gutso ugtso gtuso tguso utgso tugso gstuo sgtuo gtsuo tgsuo stguo tsguo ustgo sutgo utsgo tusgo stugo tsugo gusot ugsot gsuot sguot usgot sugot guost ugost goust ogust uogst ougst gsout sgout gosut ogsut sogut osgut usogt suogt uosgt ousgt sougt osugt gutos ugtos gtuos tguos utgos tugos guots ugots gouts oguts uogts ougts gtous tgous gotus ogtus togus otgus utogs tuogs uotgs outgs tougs otugs gstou sgtou gtsou tgsou stgou tsgou gsotu sgotu gostu ogstu sogtu osgtu gtosu tgosu gotsu ogtsu togsu otgsu stogu tsogu sotgu ostgu tosgu otsgu ustog sutog utsog tusog stuog tsuog usotg suotg uostg oustg soutg osutg utosg tuosg uotsg outsg tousg otusg stoug tsoug sotug ostug tosug otsug

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Definitions and meaning of gusto

gusto

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian gusto, from Latin gustus (“taste”). Doublet of cost (see Etymology 3 there).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡʌstəʊ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɡʌstoʊ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌstəʊ

Noun

gusto (uncountable)

  1. Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor.
  2. (rare) An individual's fondness or liking of a particular flavour
  3. (Of art) The style in which a work is done, artistic style. (occasionally) the prevailing style in matters of taste.
  4. (obsolete) Aesthetic appreciation.
  5. (obsolete, rare) (Of food) Flavour or savour

Translations

Anagrams

  • gouts

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish gusto.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: gus‧to
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡusto/, [ˈɡus.to]

Verb

gústo (Basahan spelling ᜄᜓᜐ᜔ᜆᜓ) (Naga)

  1. to like
  2. to want; to desire
  3. to mean something

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Catalan

Verb

gusto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of gustar

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin gustus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡusto]
  • Audio:
  • Rhymes: -usto
  • Hyphenation: gus‧to

Noun

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

  1. taste
  2. flavor

Derived terms

  • antaŭgusto (“foretaste”)
  • bongusta (“tasty”)
  • gusta (“of or related to taste”)
  • gusti (“to have a taste”)
  • gustigi (“to taste like”)
  • gustumi (“to taste, sample”)

Galician

Alternative forms

  • gosto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gustus.

Pronunciation

  • (standard) IPA(key): [ˈɡus̺.t̪ʊ]
  • (dialectal) IPA(key): [ˈħus̺.t̪ʊ]

Noun

gusto m (plural gustos)

  1. taste (sense)
  2. taste (flavour)
  3. liking, preference, aesthetic preference
  4. pleasure, enthusiasm
  5. fancy, whim

Verb

gusto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of gustar

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡu.sto/
  • Rhymes: -usto
  • Hyphenation: gù‧sto

Etymology 1

From Latin gustus (“taste”), from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus. It was possibly a semi-learned borrowing.

Noun

gusto m (plural gusti)

  1. taste (the sense)
  2. taste, flavour/flavor
    Synonym: sapore
  3. gusto, enjoyment, relish
  4. fancy, whim
  5. (in the plural) preferences
Hypernyms
  • cinque sensi
Derived terms
  • gustare
  • gustativo
  • gustoso
Descendants
  • → Alemannic German: Gust
  • → English: gusto
  • → Serbo-Croatian: gušt

Etymology 2

Verb

gusto

  1. first-person singular present indicative 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/, [ˈɡʊs̠t̪oː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡus.to/, [ˈɡust̪o]

Verb

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

  1. to taste, sample
  2. to snack; to whet one's appetite

Conjugation

1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Derived terms

  • dēgustō
  • gustātiō
  • praegustō
  • regustō

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
  • gusto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, 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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡusto/ [ˈɡus.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -usto
  • Syllabification: gus‧to

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin gustus (“taste”), from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus. Replaced the inherited Old Spanish form gosto. The learned word has a more abstract meaning overall.

Noun

gusto m (plural gustos)

  1. taste (sense)
  2. taste (flavour)
  3. liking, preference, aesthetic preference
  4. pleasure, enthusiasm
  5. fancy, whim
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

gusto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of gustar

References

Further reading

  • “gusto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish gusto, from Latin gustus.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: gus‧to
  • IPA(key): /ɡusˈto/, [ɡʊsˈto]
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡusto/, [ˈɡus.to]

Noun

gustó (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜐ᜔ᜆᜓ)

  1. want; like; desire
    Synonyms: kagustuhan, kursunada, nais, ibig

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

  • gusto kita

Verb

gustó or gusto (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜐ᜔ᜆᜓ)

  1. (pseudoverb) to want; to like
    Synonyms: ibig, nais

Anagrams

  • gusot

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