gustatory

English

Etymology

From Latin gustātus, participle of gustō (“to taste”), +‎ -ory.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡʌstəˌtɔɹi/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡʌstətəɹi/, /ˈɡʌstətɹi/

Adjective

gustatory (comparative more gustatory, superlative most gustatory)

1. Of, or relating to, the sense of taste.
   • 1941 June 1, Bill Henry, “By the Way”, in Los Angeles Times, volume LX, Los Angeles, Calif.: Times-Mirror Company, part II, page 1, column 1:

     WHERE TO DINE—Well, Mary Ward, our courageous gustatory investigatress, has finally completed her rounds of the eateries and, with her last despairing effort, dashed off this report on the road houses: […]

   • 2013 September 29, Ken Belson, “The Tailgate Experience, British Style”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 8 December 2021:

     The point, Goldstein discovered through a lot of long days hanging out in parking lots, is that tailgating — the gustatory madness, the multigenerational camaraderie, the decked-out vans — is as essential a part of football as the game itself.

Derived terms

• gustatorial
• gustatorily
• gustatory hair
• gustatory rhinitis
• nongustatory
• olfactogustatory

Translations

relating to taste

• Bulgarian: вкусов (vkusov)
• Catalan: gustatiu, gustatori
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 味覺的 / 味觉的

• Finnish: maku-, makuaisti-
• French: gustatif (fr)
• German: Geschmacks-, gustatorisch (de)
• Icelandic: bragðskyns- (is)
• Indonesian: gustatori
• Italian: gustativo
• Portuguese: gustativo
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̀куснӣ

  Latin: òkusnī (sh)

• Spanish: gustativo (es)