sapor means A type of taste (sweetness, sourness etc.); loosely, taste, flavor. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.
Why “sapor” is a great word
SAPOR — [Noun] The essential taste property of a substance as perceived by the gustatory sense. From Middle English *sapour*, *sapoure*, from Latin *sapor* ("taste, flavor"), related to the verb *sapere* ("to taste, to be wise"). Unlike "savor," which implies a lingering, pleasurable appreciation, or "flavor," a broad amalgam of taste and smell, sapor is the stripped, clinical fact of taste itself. It is the pure bitterness of quinine on a diagnostic strip, the stark salinity crystallized in a laboratory flask, or the mute metallic tang of blood—the raw, elemental datum of existence before the mind renders its verdict, a reminder that wisdom begins with the simple, undeniable act of tasting.
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- A type of taste (sweetness, sourness etc.); loosely, taste, flavor.“But, though the ſavour bee ſo baſe, the ſapor is ſo excellent, that no meat, no ſauce, no veſſell pleaſes the Guzurats pallat, ſave what reliſhes of it.”