flavor

English

/ˈfleɪvə/, /ˈfleɪvɚ/

noun
Definitions
  • The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
  • A substance used to produce a taste. Flavoring.
  • A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.
  • The characteristic quality of something.
  • (informal) A kind or type.
  • (physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
  • (archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English flavour borrowed from Old French flaour (smell, odour) derived from Latin *flātor, flātor (blower).

Origin

Latin

flātor

Gloss

blower

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