tasten

tasten

1. third-person plural present indicative of tastar

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old French taster, from Vulgar Latin taxitō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑstə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: tas‧ten
• Rhymes: -ɑstən

tasten

1. (intransitive) to feel with the hands, to grope

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• tastbaar
• aantasten
• aftasten
• betasten
• in het duister tasten
• tastzin

• staten

From northern Middle High German and Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old French taster, from Vulgar Latin *tastare, from *taxitare, from Latin taxare. Cognate with Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), French tâter, English taste.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtastən/

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tasten (weak, third-person singular present tastet, past tense tastete, past participle getastet, auxiliary haben)

1. to feel with the hands, to fumble, to grope

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• abtasten
• antasten
• betasten
• Taster
• Tastsinn

• Tastatur
• Taste

• “tasten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “tasten” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “tasten” in Duden online
• “tasten” in OpenThesaurus.de

From Old French taster, from Vulgar Latin tastō, from Latin taxō.

tasten

1. To taste
   • c. 1393, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, 4.2546-7:

     Wherof a man mai hiere and se
     And smelle and taste in his degre

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (with of) To partake in or ingest
   • 1987, Rolf Hendrik Bremmer, The Fyve Wyttes: A late Middle English Devotional Treatise Edited form BL MS Harley 2398, pg 27, l 7-8:

     whenne Adam tastede of pe appui he wiste neuer whefrer it was sowr or swete, ne for pe swetnesse fcerof was he nou3t repreued, bot for forfete азепз Godes [lawe].

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. To examine by touch; grope; palpate
   • c. 15th c,, The Romance of Merlin, folio la, ch XXXIII, pg 681.

     Merlin leide his heed in the damesels lappe, and she be-gan to taste softly till he fill on slepe

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. To experience, feel (with sexual connotation)
   • c. 1393, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, 5.6692-5:

     Mi fader, nay; bot I have tasted
     In many a place as I have go,
     And yit love I nevere on of tho,
     Bot forto drive forth the dai.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

5. To try, test, tempt

• English: taste

tasten m

1. definite singular of tast

tasten m

1. definite singular of tast