Other forms: aromas
An aroma is a pleasant smell, especially of food or drink. The aroma of coffee, a rich aroma, aromas from the kitchen.
Most of what we call taste is really smell arriving from the back of the mouth, which is why food is dull with a blocked nose — the tongue reports only five basic tastes and the aroma does everything else. The Greek word meant a spice.
1nounaromaA pleasant smell, especially of food or drink.
“The aroma of fresh coffee drifted out of the café and into the street.”
aroma is a smell.
Greek aroma means a spice or fragrant herb. The word first named the spice itself rather than its smell.
Latin
aroma — spices
English, today
aroma
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From Latin aroma (“spices”). From Latin arōmata (“spices”) (or arōma (“spice”)), from Ancient Greek ἄρωμα (“seasoning, spicy and/or fragrant smell”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA