amaro

Borrowed from Italian amaro.

amaro (countable and uncountable, plural amari or amaros)

1. An 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.

• -o-rama, -orama, aroma

amaro

1. first-person singular present indicative form of amarar

From amara +‎ -o.

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

amaro (uncountable, accusative amaron)

1. bitterness
   • Valdemar Langlet, Vojaĝimpresoj, originally published in Lingvo Internacia,

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

     I left with pain and bitterness in my heart.

   Synonym: amareco

Borrowed from French amarre, Italian amarra, Spanish amarra.

amaro (plural amari)

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

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

From Latin amārus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃em-, *h₂eh₃m- (“bitter, raw”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈma.ro/, [äˈmäːr̺o̞]

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• Rhymes: -aro
• Stress: amàro
• Hyphenation: a‧ma‧ro

amaro (feminine singular amara, masculine plural amari, feminine plural amare)

1. bitter

   Antonym: dolce

amaro m (plural amari)

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

• aroma

amārō

1. dative masculine singular of amārus
2. dative neuter singular of amārus
3. ablative masculine singular of amārus
4. ablative neuter plural of amārus

amaro m (feminine singular amara, masculine plural amaros, feminine plural amaras, comparable)

1. Alternative form of amargo

amaro m (plural amaros)

1. amaro (an Italian herbal liqueur)

amaro

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of amarar.