Other forms: savoured, savouring, savours
To savour is to enjoy a taste slowly and completely. Savour the flavour, savour every mouthful, savour the moment.
The slowness is the whole instruction — savouring is deliberate attention to something pleasant, and psychologists use the word for exactly that practice with experiences as well as food. As a noun it means taste or smell. Note the American spelling savor, and savoury, which means salty rather than sweet.
1verbsavourTo enjoy a taste slowly and completely.
“She ate slowly, savouring every bite of the chocolate cake.”
2nounsmellTaste or smell.
“The stew had a rich savour of herbs and red wine.”
savour is an enjoying of taste.
Also accepted in games: savor
Old French savour comes from Latin sapor, taste, from sapere, to taste or to be wise. Sapient and insipid come from the same tasting.
Proto-Indo-European
*seh₁p-
Proto-Indo-European
*sep- — to taste; to try out
Latin
sapor
Old French
saveur
Anglo-Norman
saveur
Middle English
savour
English, today
savour
Built from
From Middle English savour, from Anglo-Norman saveur, savor, savour, and Old French saveur, savor, savour (modern French saveur), from Latin sapor, from sapiō (“to taste of (something); to have a flavour”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European sep- (“to taste; to try out”)) + -or. a doublet of sapor.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA