Where does “taste” come from?
taste (Danish) comes from Danish tast, from German taste, from Italian tasto, from Italian tastare, from Vulgar Latin tastare, from Latin taxāre, from Latin Taxus, from Ancient Greek εἶδος — to look at.
taste (Danish): To type
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Ancestry of “taste”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danish | tast | imperative of taste |
| 2 | German | taste | inflection of tasten: ## first-person singular... |
| 3 | Italian | tasto | key, button; touch, feel; fret, fingerboard |
| 4 | Italian | tastare | to feel, grope, cop a feel; to probe |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | tastare | to touch, feel; present active infinitive of... |
| 6 | Latin | taxāre | — |
| 7 | Latin | Taxus | yew |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | εἶδος | That which is seen: form, image, shape;... |
| 9 | Spanish | -scopio | -scope |
| 10 | Latin | -scopium | — |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | σκοπέω | I look, look at, behold; I examine, inspect; 413... |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | σκοπός | watcher, lookout; protector, guardian; spy, scout |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | σκέπτομαι | I look at, examine; I examine, consider, think |
| 14 | Proto-Hellenic | sképťomai | to look at |