Meaning

noun the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus

noun a strong liking

noun delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)

originThe verb is from Middle English tasten, borrowed from Old French taster (“to taste, touch or hit”), from unattested Vulgar Latin *tastāre (“to touch or feel”), from *taxitāre, an innovated iterative form of Classical Latin taxāre (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch, to grasp”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-, which is assumed to have had the same meaning as tangere. The…

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