gust
to taste
Latin · gustare / gustus
Gust comes from Latin gustare, "to taste", and gustus, "taste". It appears in words about tasting, enjoying flavours, and also strong dislike.
Memory trick
GUSTo is taste with enthusiasm; DISGUST is a bad taste in the mouth.
Words from this root
- disgust (dis + gust) — strong dislike; to sickenघृणा; घिन पैदा करना
- disgustful (dis + gust + ful) — causing disgustघिनौना
- gustation (gust + ation) — the act of tastingस्वाद चखना
- gustatory (gust + atory) — of the sense of tasteस्वाद संबंधी
- gusto (gusto) — keen enjoymentउमंग, जोश
