amaro

See also: Amaro, amaró, and amåro

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian amaro.

Noun

amaro (countable and uncountable, plural amari or amaros)

1. A type of Italian herbal liqueur
   • 2007 June 27, Rob Willey, “A Bit of History, Reborn in a Glass”, in The New York Times‎:

     At Vessel, in Seattle, the bar manager, Jamie Boudreau, starts his cherry bitters by combining separate bourbon- and rye-based infusions with a touch of honey-flavored vodka and the Italian digestif amaro.

   • 2009 May 24, Michael Bauer, “Adesso salumi is a slice of heaven”, in San Francisco Chronicle‎:

     In addition, there's a full bar, with some excellent specialty cocktails and a good list of grappa, amari and dessert wines.

   • 2013 July 26, Fritz Hahn, “Football and sightseeing in Richmond”, in Independent Online‎:

     There are two dozen cocktails and shots, from whiskey punches to tiki-style drinks. (The three-rum old-fashioned should be a summertime classic.) There's a hearty focus on the bitter Italian aperitifs known as amaros.

   • 2023 September 21, Stephen Haines, “W Stands for W”, in The Paris Review‎:

     “Yeah, okay,” we smirked. But we crafted elaborate, absurd concoctions. We layered amaros and ports in medicine vials.

Related terms

• amaretto

Translations

an Italian herbal liqueur

Portuguese: amaro (pt) m

Anagrams

• Amora, -orama, Orama, aroma, O'Mara, -o-rama

Catalan

Verb

amaro

1. first-person singular present indicative of amarar

Esperanto

Etymology

From amara +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈmaro/
• Hyphenation: a‧ma‧ro
• Rhymes: -aro

Noun

amaro (uncountable, accusative amaron)

1. bitterness

   Synonym: amareco

   • (Can we date this quote?), Valdemar Langlet, “Vojaĝimpresoj”, in Lingvo Internacia:

     mi iris de tie kun doloro kaj amaro en la koro.

     I left with pain and bitterness in my heart.

   • 1955, William Auld, chapter XXV, in La infana raso (kvina eldono):

     mi kredas pri la
     bonvolo de l' homaro,
     ke iam pasos
     kruelo kaj amaro

     I believe in the
     goodwill of humanity,
     that one day will pass
     cruelty and bitterness

   • 1962, Ivan St. Georgien, “101a kanto”, in Provo alfronti la vivon:

     firegno de l' malbelo,
     de l' ploro kaj amaro

     wicked kingdom of ugliness,
     weeping and bitterness

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French amarre, Italian amarra, Spanish amarra.

Noun

amaro (plural amari)

1. (nautical) hawser, mooring rope/cable
2. lashing (as for a gun, etc.)

Derived terms

• amaragar (“to moor, belay, make fast”)
• amarago (“mooring”)
• desamaragar (“to unmoor”)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin amārus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₃mós (“bitter, raw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈma.ro/

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• Rhymes: -aro
• Hyphenation: a‧mà‧ro

Adjective

amaro (feminine amara, masculine plural amari, feminine plural amare, superlative amarissimo)

1. bitter

   Antonym: dolce

See also

Basic tastes in Italian · sapori (layout · text)
dolce	acido, aspro	salato	amaro	piccante	saporito, gustoso

Noun

amaro m (plural amari)

1. bitter, bitterness
2. any of several herbal liqueurs

Related terms

Related terms

• amaramente
• amareggiare
• amaretto
• amarevole
• amarezza
• amaricante
• amarognolo
• amarore
• amarulento
• amarume

Anagrams

• aroma

Latin

Adjective

amārō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of amārus

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈma.ɾu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈma.ɾu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈma.ɾo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈma.ɾu/

Adjective

amaro (feminine amara, masculine plural amaros, feminine plural amaras)

1. Alternative form of amargo

Noun

amaro m (plural amaros)

1. amaro (an Italian herbal liqueur)

Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Apabhramsa अम्हारउं (amhāraüṃ), from Sanskrit अस्माक (asmā́ka).^[1] Cognate with Gujarati અમારું (amārũ), Hindi हमारा (hamārā).^[2]

Determiner

amaro m sg (nominative feminine singular amari, nominative plural amare)

1. our

   amari ćhib

   a name for the Romani language (lit. our language)

Pronoun

amaro m sg (nominative feminine singular amari, nominative plural amare)

1. ours

   Amen sam e Titosqe, o Tito si amaro.

   We are Tito's, Tito is ours.

References

1. Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “asmā́ka”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 44: “Gy. eur. amaro”
2. Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “amaró”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 5

Further reading

• Marcel Courthiade (2009) “amaro”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 59
• Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “amar/o, -i, -e, -e”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 146

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈmaɾo/ [aˈma.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -aɾo
• Syllabification: a‧ma‧ro

Etymology 1

Adjective

amaro (feminine amara, masculine plural amaros, feminine plural amaras)

1. Obsolete spelling of amargo.

Noun

amaro m (plural amaros)

1.  clary sage
   • 1856, Fernando Sampedro y Guzmán, Historia natural veterinaria, volume 2, Madrid: Calleja, Lopez y Rivadeneyra, page 129:

     La salvia de los prados (salvia pratensis, L.), el amaro (salvia sclarea, L.), y algunas otras especies de este género, tienen, con corta diferencia, las mismas virtudes que la salvia oficinal.

     The meadow sage (Salvia Pratensis L.) and the clary (Salvia sclarea L.) and some other species of this genus have, with but little difference, the same virtues as the common sage.

Etymology 2

Verb

amaro

1. first-person singular present indicative of amarar

Further reading

• “amaro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10