It's the Word of the Day podcast for April 12th.

Today's word is gustatory, spelled G-U-S-T-A-T-O-R-Y.

Gustatory is an adjective. It describes things that are related to or associated with eating or the

sense of taste. Here's the word used in a sentence from the Cecil Whig by Carl Hamilton. For those

who have never experienced the gustatory pleasure, these cream puffs consist of freshly baked

pastry shells, generously covered with powdered sugar,

and bloated with chilled vanilla pudding that has been pumped into them.

Gustatori is a member of a finite set of words that describe the senses with which we encounter our world,

the other members being visual, oral, olfactory, and tactile.

Like its peers, gustatory has its roots in Latin.

In this case, the Latin word gustare, meaning to taste.

Gustare is a direct ancestor of gustatory, gustation, meaning the act or sensation of tasting,

and degustation, meaning the action or an instance of tasting,

especially in a series of small portions.

More distant relatives of Gustare include choose and disgust.

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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