English → Latin
“relish” in Latin
sapiōto be wise, or sensible, discreet, prudent; to have taste, have flavour, be intelligent, show good sense, or know, underiūcunduspleasant, agreeable, delightful, pleasing, deliciousmalusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, mgustusa tastingsaporA taste, flavor, savor.; A sense of taste.; A smell, scent, odor.
The English word relish itself goes back to Latin laxus, through relaxāre.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
relish v.
Transitively, To give a flavor, saporem admiscere; with anything, aliquid condire aliqua re.
To enjoy a flavor, etc., sapere (PROP. and figuratively): to relish one’s food, libenter cibum sumere.
Intransitively) sapere, resipere: to relish well or badly, jucundo or ingrato esse sapore; jucunde, male, sapere: to relish one’s food, libenter cenare.
relish
gustus, -ūs: sapor (both used either actively or passively; but more frequently gustus actively, taste for a thing, sapor, passively, flavor, savor). He has no relish for food, abest desiderium cibi potusque; aspernatur cibum potumque.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for relish?
- The usual Latin words for “relish” are sapiō, iūcundus, malus; also gustus, sapor. 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.