sapor

Alternative forms

• sapour

Etymology

From Middle English sapour, sapoure, from Latin sapor. Doublet of savour / savor.

Noun

sapor (countable and uncountable, plural sapors)

1. (now rare) A type of taste (sweetness, sourness etc.); loosely, taste, flavor.
   • 1638, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. […], 2nd edition, London: […] R[ichard] Bi[sho]p for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book II, page 125:

     But, though the ſavour bee ſo baſe, the ſapor is ſo excellent, that no meat, no ſauce, no veſſell pleaſes the Guzurats pallat, ſave what reliſhes of it.

Anagrams

• praos, sapro-, psora, rapso, proas, Paros, Proas, Poras, rapos, roaps, aspro

Etymology

From sapiō (“taste of, have a flavor of”) +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.por/, [ˈs̠äpɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.por/, [ˈsäːpor]

Noun

sapor m (genitive sapōris); third declension

1. A taste, flavor, savor.
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 4.267:

     proderit et tunsum gallae admiscere saporem […]

     It’ is good too to blend a taste of pounded oak-apples […]

2. A sense of taste.
3. A smell, scent, odor.
4. (usually in the plural) That which tastes good; a delicacy, dainty.
5. (figuratively) An elegance of style or character.

References

• “sapor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sapor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "sapor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sapor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sapor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sapor”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray