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