英语词汇palate的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	palate
词源	palate [LME] The word palate is from Latin palatum ‘roof of the mouth’. It came into English in this sense and rapidly developed the meaning ‘sense of taste’, but use of the word for wine tasting dates only from the 1970s.
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