Borrowed fromItalianamaro.
amaro (countable anduncountable,pluralamarioramaros)
- A type ofItalianherballiqueur.
2007 June 27, Rob Willey, “A Bit of History, Reborn in a Glass”, inThe New York Times[1], archived fromthe original on10 June 2021: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 digestifamaro.
2009 May 24, Michael Bauer, “Adesso salumi is a slice of heaven”, inSan Francisco Chronicle[2], archived fromthe original on16 March 2013: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”, inIndependent Online[3], archived fromthe original on11 October 2025: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 asamaros.
2023 September 21, Stephen Haines, “W Stands for W”, inThe Paris Review[4], archived fromthe original on1 October 2023:“Yeah, okay,” we smirked. But we crafted elaborate, absurd concoctions. We layeredamaros and ports in medicine vials.
an Italian herbal liqueur
amaro
- (Litovska)masculinegenitive ofamē
Litovska/Lithuanian Romani personal pronouns
- ^The ablative is in decline in Lithuanian Romani
amaro
- first-personsingularpresentindicative ofamarar
Fromamara +-o.
amaro (uncountable,accusativeamaron)
- bitterness
- Synonym:amareco
(Can wedate this quote?), Valdemar Langlet, “Vojaĝimpresoj”, inLingvo Internacia:mi iris de tie kun doloro kajamaro en la koro.- I left with pain andbitterness in my heart.
1955, William Auld, chapter XXV, inLa infana raso (kvina eldono):mi kredas pri la
bonvolo de l' homaro,
ke iam pasos
kruelo kajamaro- I believe in the
goodwill of humanity,
that one day will pass
cruelty andbitterness
1962, Ivan St. Georgien, “101a kanto”, inProvo alfronti la vivon:firegno de l' malbelo,
de l' ploro kajamaro- wicked kingdom of ugliness,
weeping andbitterness
Borrowed fromFrenchamarre,Italianamarra,Spanishamarra.
amaro (pluralamari)
- (nautical)hawser,mooring rope/cable
- lashing(as for a gun, etc.)
FromLatinamārus, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂eh₃mós(“bitter, raw”).
amaro (feminineamara,masculine pluralamari,feminine pluralamare,superlativeamarissimo)
- bitter
- Antonym:dolce
amaro m (pluralamari)
- bitter,bitterness
- any of severalherballiqueurs
amārō
- first-personsingularfuture perfectactiveindicative ofamō
amārō
- dative/ablativemasculine/neutersingular ofamārus
amaro (feminineamara,masculine pluralamaros,feminine pluralamaras)
- alternative form ofamargo
amaro m (pluralamaros)
- amaro(an Italian herbal liqueur)
Inherited fromApabhramsaअम्हार(amhāra), fromSanskritअस्माक(asmā́ka).[1][2] Cognate withGujaratiઅમારું(amārũ),Marwariअमारौ(amārau).
amaro m sg (nominative feminine singularamari,nominative pluralamare)
- our
amari ćhib- a name for the Romani language (lit. our language)
amaro m sg (nominative feminine singularamari,nominative pluralamare)
- ours
Amen sam e Titosqe, o Tito siamaro.- We are Tito's, Tito is ours.
- ^Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “asmā́ka”, inA Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press,page44: “Gy. eur.amaro”
- ^Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “amaró”, inWörterbuch 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
- 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, page59
- 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, published2021,→ISBN,→OCLC, page146
- IPA(key): /aˈmaɾo/[aˈma.ɾo]
- Rhymes:-aɾo
- Syllabification:a‧ma‧ro
amaro (feminineamara,masculine pluralamaros,feminine pluralamaras)
- obsolete spelling ofamargo
amaro m (pluralamaros)
- clary sage
1856, Fernando Sampedro y Guzmán,Historia natural veterinaria, volume 2, Madrid: Calleja, Lopez y Rivadeneyra,page129:La salvia de los prados (salvia pratensis, L.), elamaro (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 PratensisL.) and theclary (Salvia sclareaL.) and some other species of this genus have, with but little difference, the same virtues as the common sage.
amaro
- first-personsingularpresentindicative ofamarar
