FromLatinacerbus.
- IPA(key): /aˈθɛɾbo/[aˈθɛɾ.β̞ʊ]
- IPA(key): (standard)/aˈθɛɾbo/[aˈθɛɾ.β̞ʊ]
- IPA(key): (seseo)/aˈsɛɾbo/[aˈsɛɾ.β̞ʊ]
- Rhymes:-ɛɾbo
- Hyphenation:a‧cer‧bo
acerbo (feminineacerba,masculine pluralacerbos,feminine pluralacerbas)
- acerbic
FromLatinacerbus.
acerbo (feminineacerba,masculine pluralacerbi,feminine pluralacerbe,superlativeacerbissimo)
- unripe,premature
- acerbic,sour,bitter,harsh,crude
- hard,severe
- acerbo in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Fromacerbus(“harsh, bitter”) +-ō.
acerbō (present infinitiveacerbāre,perfect activeacerbāvī,supineacerbātum);first conjugation
- (transitive) to makeharsh orbitter,embitter
- (transitive) toaugment oraggravate somethingdisagreeable, makeworse,exacerbate
- “acerbo”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “acerbo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- acerbo inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) he has had many painful experiences:multa acerba expertus est
Borrowed fromLatinacerbus.
acerbo (feminineacerba,masculine pluralacerbos,feminine pluralacerbas)
- acerbic(bitter to the taste)
acerbo
- first-personsingularpresentindicative ofacerbar
Borrowed fromLatinacerbus.
- IPA(key): (Spain)/aˈθeɾbo/[aˈθeɾ.β̞o]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines)/aˈseɾbo/[aˈseɾ.β̞o]
- Rhymes:-eɾbo
- Syllabification:a‧cer‧bo
acerbo (feminineacerba,masculine pluralacerbos,feminine pluralacerbas)
- acerb(bitter to the taste)
- acerbic(sour or bitter)
- biting,scathing,acerbic
