amargo

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See also: amargó

Asturian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈmaɾɡo/,
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɾɡo
  • Hyphenation: a‧mar‧go

Adjective

amargo

  1. neuter of amargu

Catalan

Verb

amargo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of amargar

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese amaro (“bitter”) (from Latin amārus), modified by influence from the verb amargar. Compare Portuguese amargo, Spanish amargo.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (standard) /aˈmaɾɡo/
  • IPA(key): (gheada) /aˈmaɾħo/

 

  • Hyphenation: a‧mar‧go

Adjective

amargo (feminine amarga, masculine plural amargos, feminine plural amargas)

  1. bitter

Derived terms

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

amargo

  1. Nonstandard spelling of amarga. Romanization of ꦲꦩꦂꦒ

Ladino

Etymology

Akin to Spanish amargo.

Adjective

amargo (Latin spelling, feminine amarga, masculine plural amargos, feminine plural amargas)

  1. bitter

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese amaro (“bitter”) (from Latin amārus), modified by influence from the verb amargar. Compare Galician and Spanish amargo.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: a‧mar‧go

Adjective

amargo (feminine amarga, masculine plural amargos, feminine plural amargas)

  1. referring to an unpleasant taste
    1. bitter, acrid
    2. with little or no sugar
    3. acid, spicy
  2. (figurative) sad, gloomy, sorrowful
  3. (figurative) rigid, strict, intolerant
  4. (figurative) resentful
Further reading
  • “amargo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Etymology 2

Verb

amargo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of amargar

Spanish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish amaro (“bitter”) (from Latin amārus), modified by influence from the verb amargar.[1] Compare with English amaroid.

Adjective

amargo (feminine amarga, masculine plural amargos, feminine plural amargas)

  1. bitter, sour (having an acrid taste)
    Synonym: agrio
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Sardinian: amargu

Noun

amargo m (plural amargos)

  1. bitterness
    Synonym: amargura

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

amargo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of amargar

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “amargo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 233

Further reading

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