sapōrus

Meaning

1. Late Latinadjectivesavory, delicious
   Et Seneca, Nondum sunt, inquit, mille anni, ex quo initia sapientiae mota sunt. Multis ergo saeculis humanum genus sine ratione vixit. Quod irridens Persius, Postquam, inquit, sapere Urbi / cum pipere et palmis venit, tamquam sapientia cum saporis mercibus fuerit invecta.And so Seneca says, It isn't yet a thousand years since the beginnings of wisdom. For many centuries, then, humanity (allegedly) lived without reason. Persius laughed at this saying: After taste (wisdom) came to the City with pepper and palm dates, as if wisdom had been brought in with savory merchandise.c. 250 CE – c. 325 CE, Lactantius, Divinae Institutiones 3.16.15
   anima ... tota naribus odora, tota palato sapora, tota corpore sentit palpabiliaThe soul ... perceives all smells with the nose, all savory things with the palate, all that can be sensed by touch with the body.d. 1164, Hugh of Amiens, Dialogorum libri VIII 1241A (as cited in "saporus", Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources)

Declension

Origins

From sapor, cf. formations in Silver Latin such as honorus from honor, odorus from odor, and the back-formation decor from decorus competing with older decus.

In English words that came into English from sapōrus

• saporoussapōrus