RELISH Copy link • RELISH 1. v. Transitively, To give a flavor, saporem admiscere; with anything, aliquid condire aliqua re. To enjoy a flavor, etc., sapere (PROP. and figuratively): to relish one’s food, libenter cibum sumere. Intransitively) sapere, resipere: to relish well or badly, jucundo or ingrato esse sapore; jucunde, male, sapere: to relish one’s food, libenter cenare. 2. gustus, -ūs: sapor (both used either actively or passively; but more frequently gustus actively, taste for a thing, sapor, passively, flavor, savor). He has no relish for food, abest desiderium cibi potusque; aspernatur cibum potumque.