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flavour

Meaningyellow, gold-coloured

Common meaning: distinctive taste

Journey through time

  1. Latinflauus‘yellow, gold-coloured’source
  2. Late Latinflauorsource
  3. Middle Englishflairsource
  4. Englishmeaning shiftsyellow, gold-coloured → distinctive tasteflavour‘distinctive taste’ · today

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: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin flauus ‘yellow, gold-coloured’.

Roots

  • flauus Latin “yellow, gold-coloured”

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