gustos

Forms

gustos m or n (feminine singular gustoasă, masculine plural gustoși, feminine/neuter plural gustoase)^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Romanian gust + -os.^[2][3][4][1] The noun gust “taste” continues Latin gustus.^[1] Cihac set it beside Italian gustoso, Spanish gustoso and Portuguese gostoso.^[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is Klein's dictionary of 1801, which spells it guftos (long s) and glosses it with Latin, Hungarian and German words for “tasty”.^[6] Tiktin's first date is 1805.^[7]

Semantic evolution

The meaning has stayed the same, “pleasant to the taste”, said of food and drink.^[2][7] The Lexicon de la Buda (1825) gives it with the Latinist spellings gustosu and gustuosu.^[8] MDA2 quotes Creangă's Amintiri din copilărie for it.^[3]

Timeline

• 1801 – guftos in Klein's dictionary.^[6]
• 1805 – Tiktin's first record.^[7]
• 1825 – gustosu in the Lexicon de la Buda.^[8]
• 1870 – Costinescu glosses it with French savoureux.^[9]

Meanings

Adjective

1. (of food and drink) tasty, having a good, pleasant taste: o supă gustoasă “a tasty soup”.^[2][3]

Related words

• gust
• gusta

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 455
3. ^ a b c Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 1033
4. ^ Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 582
5. ^ Cihac, A. de (1870), Dictionnaire d'étymologie daco-romane I: Éléments latins comparés avec les autres langues romanes, Frankfurt am Main, p. 114
6. ^ a b Gáldi, László (ed.) (1944), Samuel Klein: Dictionarium valachico-latinum. Primul dicționar al limbii române, Budapest: Királyi Magyar Pázmány Péter Tudományegyetemi Román Intézet (Klein's dictionary of 1801, with Gáldi's etymological study), p. 369
7. ^ a b c Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. gustós
8. ^ a b Lesicon românescu-latinescu-ungurescu-nemțescu quare de mai mulți autori, în cursul a trideci și mai multor ani s-au lucrat (1825), Buda: Typographia Universității (the Lexicon of Buda, ed. Petru Maior et al.), p. 250
9. ^ Costinescu, Ion (1870), Vocabularu romano-francesu, 2 vols., Bucuresci, p. 1, 506