The chef added cinnamon to enhance the unique ____ of the dessert.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The fresh basil adds a wonderful ____ to the tomato sauce, making it taste authentic.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *flāōder.
Latin flō
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin flātor
Vulgar Latin *flātorder.
Old French flaorbor.
Middle English savourinflu.
Middle English flavour
English flavor
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"I'd like to read from a pair of letters that we got recently at GCN to give you the flavor of the issues gay prisoners have to deal with."
— 1983 December 10, Mike Riegle, “Sexual Politics of "Crime": Inside and Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 5:
"Who brings the flavor? / That's me, that's me / Who brings the flavor? / That's me. I got it"
— 1993, “Bring The Flavor”, in Black Reign, performed by Queen Latifah:
"It was damp, it was not free from dry rot, there was a flavour of rats in it, and it was the gloomy victim of that indescribable decay which settles on all the work of man’s hands whenever it’s not turned to man’s account."
— 1859 December 13, Charles Dickens, “The Mortals in the House”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Whiting, […], →OCLC, page 4: