sapor

American  

[sey-per, -pawr] / ˈseɪ pər, -pɔr /

British, sapour

noun

1. the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste; savor; flavor.

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sapor British  

/ -pə, ˈseɪpɔː /

noun

1. rare the quality in a substance that is perceived by the sense of taste; flavour

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Other Word Forms

• saporific
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of sapor

From Latin, dating back to 1470–80; see origin at savor

Example Sentences

Nae tu grande sapis! sapor et sapientia non est: Omnis et in paruis bene qui scit desipuisse, Saepe supercilijs palmam sapientibus aufert.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund

Does the palate exert some peculiar action on the ingesta, so as to give to each a distinct sapor?

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

Xenocles affirmed, that ripe fruit had usually a pleasing, vellicating sapor, and thereby provoked the appetite better than sauces or sweetmeats; for sick men of a vitiated stomach usually recover it by eating fruit.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

Found another Acrostichum, a Bolbophyllum, a rare Aristolochia foliis palmatis, 7 lobis, subtus glaucis; sapor peracerbus, floribus siphonicis. 

From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William

That which emits this sapor hoereticus becomes so initially horrible, that naturally no beauty can ever be discovered in it; the senses and imagination are in that case inhibited by the conscience.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George