flavor English · revision 13293

− It is Middle English flavour, an alteration, influenced by [[savor]], of Old French [[m|fro|flaor|t=smell, odour]], flaur,^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) probably from Vulgar Latin *flātor, odour, literally that which blows, from Latin flātor, a blower, from flāre, to blow (see [[blow]]),^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) according to Watkins from PIE *bʰleh₁-, to blow.^(Etymonline) The same Vulgar Latin source produced Old Italian fiatore, a bad smell.^(Etymonline)