Gusto is hearty enjoyment in doing something. Eat with gusto, sing with gusto, tackle it with gusto.
It appears almost only in the phrase with gusto, and it describes the manner rather than the feeling: doing something with gusto is doing it wholeheartedly and visibly. The Italian means taste, and English gust once meant the same.
1noungustoHearty enjoyment in doing something.
“The children tucked into their birthday cake with great gusto.”
gusto is an enjoyment.
Italian gusto means taste, from Latin gustus. Disgust is built on the same root.
Proto-Indo-European
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Latin
gustus — taste
Italian
gusto
English, today
gusto
Italian gusto, from Latin gustus (“taste”). a doublet of cost (see Etymology 3 there).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA