disgust

The story

1. Middle French · borrowed fromdesgoust
2. Latin · derived fromgustus“a tasting”
3. Old French · derived fromdesgouster“to put off one's appetite”
4. Middle French · borrowed fromdesgouster
5. English todaydisgust

Borrowed from Middle French desgouster, from Old French desgouster (“to put off one's appetite”), from des- (“dis-”) + gouster, goster (“to taste”), from Latin gustus (“a tasting”). By surface analysis, dis- + gust (“taste”). The noun is from Middle French desgoust, from the verb.

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