sapid

[prettygoodword]

sapid - adj., possessing taste or flavor; having an agreeable flavor, pleasant-tasting; agreeable to one's mind, engaging.


Or in a technical sense, affecting the organs of taste. From Latin sapidus, tasty, from sapere, to taste -- which word by extension came to mean to know, to be wise, from whence sapient and sage (the person -- sage the herb has a different root).

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---L.

Comments

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Interesting! (How do they get "sage" from "sapid"?)

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Some rather odd gyrations of consonants, as I recall.

---L.