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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.

Definitions and meaning of gusto

gusto

English

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
  • Hyphenation: gus‧to

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

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

Verb

gústo or gustó (plural gurusto, Basahan spelling ᜄᜓᜐ᜔ᜆᜓ) (Naga)

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

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Derived terms

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Catalan

Verb

gusto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of gustar

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin gustus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡusto/
  • Rhymes: -usto
  • Hyphenation: gus‧to

Noun

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

  1. taste
  2. flavor

Derived terms

See also

Galician

Alternative forms

  • gosto

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin gustus.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -usto
  • Hyphenation: gus‧to

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): /ˈɡus.to/
  • Rhymes: -usto
  • Hyphenation: gù‧sto

Etymology 1

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

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

Further reading

  • gusto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From unattested *gustus (“tasted”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵustós, from *ǵews- (“to taste”). Cognate with gustus (“a taste”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɡʊs.toː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɡus.t̪o]

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish gusto, from Latin gustus.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ɡusˈto/ [ɡʊsˈt̪o], (rare) /ˈɡusto/ [ˈɡus.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -o, (rare) -usto
  • Syllabification: gus‧to

Noun

gustó or gusto (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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