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disgust

/dɪsˈɡʌst/dis-GUHST
/dɪsˈɡʌst/dis-GUHST

Meaningdistaste

Common meaning: strong dislike

‘apart, away’ + ‘a tasting, flavour’ → disgust

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√GUS‘choose, taste’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 105, p. 733 · scan
  2. Latingustus‘a tasting, flavour’
  3. Old Frenchdesgoustersource
  4. Englishdisgust‘strong dislike’ · today

dis- also in: disarmdiscerndiscorddisdaindismiss

gust also in: gusto

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin gustus ‘a tasting, flavour’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry gustus, p. 832 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • gustus Latin “a tasting, flavour”

Related words

gusto

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