gusto
pronunciation
How to pronounce gusto in British English:
UK [ˈgʌstəʊ]
How to pronounce gusto in American English:
US [ˈgʌstoʊ]
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- Noun:
- vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment
Word Origin
- gusto
- gusto: [17] Gusto originally meant ‘taste’. It was borrowed from Italian gusto, which, like French goût, comes from Latin gustus ‘taste’. Its semantic progress from ‘taste’ via ‘liking for a particular food’ and ‘liking in general’ to ‘zest, enthusiasm’ is paralleled in relish. (Latin gustus itself came from an Indo-European *geus-, which also produced English choose.)=> choose
- gusto (n.)
- 1620s, "very common from the beginning of the 19th c." [OED], from Italian gusto "taste," from Latin gustus "a tasting," related to gustare "to taste, take a little of," from PIE *gus-tu-, suffixed form of root *geus- "to taste, choose" (cognates: Sanskrit jus- "enjoy, be pleased," Avestan zaosa- "pleasure," Old Persian dauš- "enjoy"). The root forms words for "taste" in Greek and Latin, but its descendants in Germanic and Celtic mostly mean "try" or "choose" (such as Old English cosan, cesan, Modern English choose; Gothic kausjan "to test, to taste of," Old High German koston "try," German kosten "taste of"). The semantic development could have been in either direction. English first borrowed the French form, guste "organ of taste; sense of taste" (mid-15c.), but this became obsolete.
Example
- 1. But stuart always manages to bounce back , with gusto .
- 2. There are few signs that bradford 's whites and muslims are bonding with any great gusto .
- 3. It seems as if a great deal were attainable in a world where there are so many marriages and decisive battles , and where we all , at certain hours of the day , and with great gusto and despatch , stow a portion of victuals finally and irretrievably into the bag which contains us .
- 4. But now that property prices have started to fall , mr matthews argues , investors may choose to switch back to equities with gusto .
- 5. People who have lots of sex are not approved of but they are thought to live life with gusto .