gustātĭo

ōnis, f.

id.; a first tasting of food; hence

I. the first light dish of a Roman meal, an antepast, whet: jussi discubuimus, et gustatione mirifica initiati vino etiam Falerno inundamur, Petr. 21, 6; 31, 8.
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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