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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

salgado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: salgado

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Savoury/ˈseɪ.vər.i/
adjectivenounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Os salgados da festa estavam deliciosos."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Belonging to the category that is salty or spicy rather than sweet.

    "She prepared a variety of savoury tarts and canapés for the afternoon reception."
As noun
  1. 1

    A savory dish, especially one served as an hors d'oeuvre or at the end of a dinner.

    "The meal concluded with a traditional cheese-based savoury."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old French 'savoure' (flavorful, pleasing to the taste or smell), stemming from the Late Latin 'saporius', originating from the Latin root 'sapere' (to taste or be wise). Entering Middle English in the 14th century, it initially meant pleasant-tasting before evolving to specifically denote food that is salt-seasoned or piquant rather than sweet.

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