Noun: savory
| Singular | savory |
| Plural | savories |
Sample Sentences
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On Friday the pastry chef Pichet Ong will open his own cafe, with sweets and savories served at tables and a counter. [2007 April 18, Florence Fabricant, “Off the Menu”, in New York Times:]
Nouns inflected like savory
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From the Middle English savory, savourie, from Old French savouré, from Old French savourer, from Late Latin sapōrāre, from Latin sapor (“taste, flavour”), from sapiō, sapere (“taste of, have a flavour of”). See: Latin Nouns '
sapor'.