flavour

flavour
\ \ [14] The form of the word flavour, and probably to some extent its meaning, owe a lot to savour. It was borrowed from Old French flaor, and originally meant ‘smell’ (the current association with ‘taste’ did not develop until the 17th century). The savour-influenced change from flaor to flavour seems to have happened somewhere in the crack between Old French and Middle English: there is no evidence of a -vspelling in Old French. The Old French word itself came from Vulgar Latin *flātorsmell’, a derivative of Latin flātusblowing, breeze, breath’ (possibly influenced by Latin foetorfoul smell’). Flātus in turn came from the past participle of flāreblow’.

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