amargar

Inherited from Late Latin amāricāre, derived from Latin amārus (“bitter”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

amargar (first-person singular present amargo, first-person singular preterite amarguí, past participle amargat)

1. (intransitive) to have a bitter taste
   • 1950, Josep Pla, Bodegó amb peixos:

     El moixó és un peix petit, que menja la vegetació del litoral i amarga una mica; té el gust una mica acre de les pastures assolellades.

     The big-scale sand smelt is a small fish which eats littoral vegetation and tastes a little bitter; it has the slightly acrid flavour of sunny pastures.

2. (transitive) to make bitter or sour
3. (transitive, figurative) to embitter, to sour, to spoil
   • 1963, Àngel Sánchez Gozalbo, Els Viciana i la nostra literatura:

     Amargada i afligida per la soptada mort del fill fadrí, Jaume de Viciana, la vídua de Rampston s'arrecera al costat de la filla casada Àngela i se'n va a València, no sense abans vendre el propi patrimoni i l'heretat del vincle a Castelló i Borriana.

     Embittered and afflicted by the sudden death of her unmarried son, Jaume de Viciana, Rampston's widow took shelter at the side of her married daughter Àngela and went to Valencia, not without first selling her own inheritance and that held in security to Castelló i Borriana.

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• “amargar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Late Latin amāricāre, derived from Latin amārus (“bitter”).

amargar (Latin spelling)

1. to embitter, sadden

• amargo

From Late Latin amāricāre, derived from Latin amārus (“bitter”).

amargar (first-person singular present amargo, first-person singular preterite amarguei, past participle amargado)

1. to embitter (to cause to have an acrid taste)
2. (figurative) to cause sorrow or grief

   Synonym: amargurar

   Antonym: desamargar

3. (figurative) to wallow in sorrow or grief

For quotations using this term, see Citations:amargar.

• amargo
• amargor
• amargoso
• armargura

• “amargar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Inherited from Late Latin amāricāre, derived from Latin amārus (“bitter”).

• IPA^(key): /amaɾˈɡaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧mar‧gar

amargar (first-person singular present amargo, first-person singular preterite amargué, past participle amargado)

1. (transitive) to make bitter; embitter
2. (reflexive) to go bitter, get bitter

• “amargar”, 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