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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=12th century (gost); early 13th century, Reclus de Molliens (goust)|origins=la gustus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɡu/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''goût''' ''m'' (plural goûts)^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French ''gost'' (12th century), ''goust'' (early 13th century); ''goût'' from the 17th century.^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)

+ The 1990 spelling reform allows ''gout''.^(Larousse)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|la|gustus|t=tasting; taste, flavour]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(FEW|4, 341b) Rey and the Petit Robert relate “gustus” to an Indo-European root “*geus-” “to try, taste, appreciate”, also behind [[got|𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽|tr=kausjan|t=to test]] (see [[choisir]]), [[de|kosten]] and [[en|choose]].^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ Cognate with [[ro|gust]], [[it|gusto]], [[oc|gost]], [[ca|gust]], [[es|gusto]] and [[pt|gosto]].^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In the 12th century ''gost'' is a flavour; in the Reclus de Molliens (early 13th century) ''goust'' means food itself, a sense found only in this author.^(GLLF 1989)^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Figurative uses are as old as the literal ones: ''esperituel goust'' (13th century), ''venir bien a goust'' “to please” (Adam de la Halle, about 1276), and “appetite, desire” in 1379.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) The sense by which flavours are perceived is recorded about 1282.^(TLFi) From 1564 it meant the faculty of appreciating, preference, and in aesthetics Poussin has ''de bon goût'' (1643), whence ''le bon goût'', ''de mauvais goût'' (1690) and ''avoir du goût''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) Mme de Sévigné used it for liking for a person (1686).^(TLFi) ''Faire passer à quelqu'un le goût du pain'' “to kill” dates from 1656.^(DHLF 1992) In Quebec ''avoir le goût de'' means “to feel like”.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 12th century – ''Gost'', flavour.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * Early 13th century – ''Goust'', food, Reclus de Molliens.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1276 – ''Venir bien a goust'', Adam de la Halle.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1282 – The sense of taste.^(TLFi)

+ * 1379 – Appetite, desire.^(TLFi)

+ * 1564 – Liking, preference.^(TLFi)

+ * 1610 – ''Avant-goût''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1643 – ''De bon goût'', Poussin.^(TLFi)

+ * 1764 – ''Arrière-goût''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The sense of [[m|en|taste]]: ''les organes du goût''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Taste, [[m|en|flavour]]: ''un goût sucré'', ''avoir bon goût'', ''un goût de brûlé''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Liking, inclination: ''avoir du goût pour'', ''prendre goût à'', ''par goût'', ''à mon goût''.^(DHLF 1992)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Taste, aesthetic judgement: ''avoir du goût'', ''de bon goût'', ''de mauvais goût''.^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # Style, manner: ''au goût du jour'', ''dans le goût de''.^(DHLF 1992)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Quebec)'' ''Avoir le goût de'': to feel like.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[goûter]]

+ * [[arrière-goût]]

+ * [[avant-goût]]

+ * [[dégoût]]

+ * [[dégoûter]]

+ * [[dégoûtant]]

+ * [[ragoût]]

+ * [[ragoûtant]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[déguster]]

+ * [[gustatif]]

+ * [[la|gustus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}