flavor

== English == === Alternative forms === flavour (British spelling) flavuh (eye dialect) === Etymology === From Middle English flavour meaning “smell, odour”, usually pleasing, borrowed from Old French flaour (“smell, odour”) (cfr. Sicilian ciàguru, its etymology and semantic), from Vulgar Latin *flātor (“odour, that which blows”), from Latin flātor (“blower”), from flō, flāre (“to blow, puff”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to make a loud noise”). Doublet of blow and bleat. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfleɪvə/ (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈfleɪvɚ/ (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈflæɪvə/ Rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ) Homophone: flava (non-rhotic accents) === Noun === flavor (countable and uncountable, plural flavors) (American spelling) The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect. Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste. A variety (of taste) attributed to an object (food, candy, chewing gum, medicine, etc). The characteristic quality of something. (informal, figurative) A kind or type. (hip-hop slang) Style. (particle 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. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === flavor (third-person singular simple present flavors, present participle flavoring, simple past and past participle flavored) (American spelling, transitive) To add flavoring to something. ==== Derived terms ==== flavor up overflavor ==== Translations ==== === See also === gustatory gustation === Further reading === “flavor n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present. == Catalan == === Etymology === Borrowed from English flavor. === Noun === flavor m or f (plural flavors) (food industry) flavor Synonym: sabor === Further reading === “flavor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026 == Middle English == === Noun === flavor alternative form of flavour