taster
English
A wine taster.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /teɪstɚ/
- Rhymes: -eɪstə(ɹ)
Noun
taster (plural tasters)
- An object in which, or by which, food or drink is tasted, for example a dram cup
- Someone who tastes something, especially food, wine etc., for quality.
- Dryden
- Thy tutor be thy taster, ere thou eat.
- Dryden
- (zoology) A kind of zooid situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophorae, resembling the feeding zooids, but destitute of mouths.
- A sample of something bigger or grander intended for future use
- The exhibition was a taster of products set to hit the market.
- A person who is, by genetic makeup, able to taste phenylthiocarbamide
Translations
That in which, or by which, anything is tasted
Danish
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the main entry.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Old French
Etymology
From a late Vulgar Latin *tastāre, from contraction of *taxitāre, iterative of Late Latin taxāre, present active infinitive of taxō, from Classical Latin tangō (“I touch”). Compare Catalan and Occitan tastar, Italian tastare.
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-sts, *-stt are modified to z, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of taster (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | taster | avoir tasté | |||||
| gerund | en tastant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | tastant | ||||||
| past participle | tasté | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | tast | tastes | taste | tastons | tastez | tastent |
| imperfect | tastoie, tasteie, tastoe, tasteve | tastoies, tasteies, tastoes, tasteves | tastoit, tasteit, tastot, tasteve | tastiiens, tastiens | tastiiez, tastiez | tastoient, tasteient, tastoent, tastevent | |
| preterite | tastai | tastas | tasta | tastames | tastastes | tasterent | |
| future | tasterai | tasteras | tastera | tasterons | tasteroiz, tastereiz, tasterez | tasteront | |
| conditional | tasteroie, tastereie | tasteroies, tastereies | tasteroit, tastereit | tasteriiens, tasteriens | tasteriiez, tasteriez | tasteroient, tastereient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | tast | taz | tast | tastons | tastez | tastent |
| imperfect | tastasse | tastasses | tastast | tastissons, tastissiens | tastissoiz, tastissez, tastissiez | tastassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | taste | — | tastons | tastez | — | ||
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (taster)
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