savour

savour · noun¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*seh₁p-, *sep-“to taste; to try out”
2. Latin · derived fromsapor
3. Old French · derived fromsaveur
4. Anglo-Norman · derived fromsaveur
5. Middle English · inherited fromsavour
6. English todaysavour

From Middle English savour, from Anglo-Norman saveur, savor, savour, and Old French saveur, savor, savour (modern French saveur), from Latin sapor, from sapiō (“to taste of (something); to have a flavour”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁p-, *sep- (“to taste; to try out”)) + -or (suffix forming third-declension masculine abstract nouns). Doublet of sapor.

savour · verb²

1. Latin · derived fromsapor
2. Late Latin · derived fromsapōrāre
3. Old French · derived fromsavorer
4. Middle French · derived fromsavorer
5. Anglo-Norman · derived fromsavorer
6. Middle English · inherited fromsavouren
7. English todaysavour

From Middle English savouren, savour, from Anglo-Norman savorer, savourer, Middle French savorer, savourer, and Old French savorer, savourer (modern French savourer), from Late Latin sapōrāre, the present active infinitive of sapōrō (“to give flavour, make tasty; to give pleasure”), from Latin sapor (see etymology 1) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

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