Borrowed fromItalianamaro.

amaro (countable anduncountable,pluralamarioramaros)

1. A type ofItalianherballiqueur
   • 2007 June 27, Rob Willey, “A Bit of History, Reborn in a Glass”, inThe New York Times‎^[1]:

     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]:

     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]:

     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]:

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

• amaretto

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

amaro

1. (Litovska)masculinegenitive ofamē

amaro

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofamarar

Fromamara +‎-o.

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

amaro (uncountable,accusativeamaron)

1. 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)

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

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

FromLatinamārus, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂eh₃mós(“bitter, raw”).

• IPA^(key):/aˈma.ro/

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• Rhymes:-aro
• Hyphenation:a‧mà‧ro

amaro (feminineamara,masculine pluralamari,feminine pluralamare,superlativeamarissimo)

1. bitter

   Antonym:dolce

amaro m (pluralamari)

1. bitter,bitterness
2. any of severalherballiqueurs

• aroma

amārō

1. dative/ablativemasculine/neutersingular ofamārus

amaro (feminineamara,masculine pluralamaros,feminine pluralamaras)

1. Alternative form ofamargo

amaro m (pluralamaros)

1. amaro(an Italian herbal liqueur)

Inherited fromApabhramsaअम्हारउं(amhāraüṃ), fromSanskritअस्माक(asmā́ka).^[1] Cognate withGujaratiઅમારું(amārũ),Hindiहमारा(hamārā).^[2]

amaro m sg (nominative feminine singularamari,nominative pluralamare)

1. our

   amari ćhib

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

amaro m sg (nominative feminine singularamari,nominative pluralamare)

1. ours

   Amen sam e Titosqe, o Tito siamaro.

   We are Tito's, Tito is ours.

• 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)

1. Obsolete spelling ofamargo.

amaro m (pluralamaros)

1.  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

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofamarar

• “amaro”, inDiccionario 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