English

tastable

Tastable comes from Middle English tastable.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

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Formed from taste + -able

Latin taxō ‘to feel, touch sharply’

Vulgar Latin *taxitāre

Vulgar Latin *tastāre ‘to touch or feel’

Old French taster ‘to taste; to touch’

Middle English tasten ‘to taste’

English taste

Every English word from Middle English tastable

adj That can be tasted; that can be detected by one's sense of taste.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.