savor

See also: savôr

English

Etymology 1

Noun

savor (countable and uncountable, plural savors)

1. US standard spelling of savour.
   • 1900, New York (State) Legislature, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, page 774, syllabus of the department of public instruction:

     Taste gives knowledge of the savors of material things. Touch gives knowledge of form, smoothness, roughness, hardness, softness, pressure, temperature. Hearing gives knowledge of sound and distinguishes noises, musical tones, [...]

Etymology 2

Verb

savor (third-person singular simple present savors, present participle savoring, simple past and past participle savored)

1. US standard spelling of savour.
   • 1915, John Burroughs, The Writings of John Burroughs:

     An explanation of life phenomena that savors of the laboratory and chemism repels me, and an explanation that savors of the theological point of view is equally distasteful to me. I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena ...

Anagrams

• 'sarvo, VAROs, Voras, arvos, sarvo, sorva

Ido

Verb

savor

1. future infinitive of savar

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian sapore, from Latin sapor. Compare also French saveur.

Noun

savor

1. taste

Old French

Noun

savor oblique singular, f (oblique plural savors, nominative singular savor, nominative plural savors)

1. Alternative form of savour

Romanian

Noun

savor m (plural savori)

1. Obsolete form of samur.

Declension

Declension of savor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) savor	savorul	(niște) savori	savorii
genitive/dative	(unui) savor	savorului	(unor) savori	savorilor
vocative	savorule		savorilor

References

• savor in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN