English → Latin
“flavor” in Latin
saporA taste, flavor, savor.; A sense of taste.; A smell, scent, odor.suāvitāssweetness (of taste); melodiousness, tunefulness (of sound); attractiveness (of appearance); pleasantness, agreeablenesscondiōto season, spice, make savory; to embalm; to cultivate, temper
The English word flavor itself goes back to Latin flō, through *flātor.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
flavor s.
With reference to taste, sapor. A pleasant flavor, sapor jucundus: suavitas: to have a pleasant flavor, jucundo sapore esse; jucunde sapere: anything loses its flavor, alicujus rei sapor non permanet integer: to receive a flavor of something else, alieno sapore infici: to have a bitter flavor, amarum saporem habere: anything has no flavor, alicujus rei sapor nullus est.
With reference to smell; Vid: ODOR.
flavor v.
sapore or odore aliquo inficere: condire.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for flavor?
- The usual Latin words for “flavor” are sapor, suāvitās, condiō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.