Etymology

Borrowed from ItalianCategory:English terms borrowed from Italian#AMAROCategory:English terms derived from Italian#AMARO amaro.

Noun

amaro (countable and uncountable, plural amari or amaros)Category:English lemmas#AMAROCategory:English nouns#AMAROCategory:English uncountable nouns#AMAROCategory:English countable nouns#AMAROCategory:English countable nouns#AMAROCategory:English nouns with irregular plurals#AMAROCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#AMAROCategory:Pages with entries#AMAROCategory:Pages with 10 entries#AMARO

1. A type of Italian herbal liqueur.
   • 2007 June 27, Rob Willey, “A Bit of History, Reborn in a Glass”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 10 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 digestif amaro.

     Category:English terms with quotations#AMARO

   • 2009 May 24, Michael Bauer, “Adesso salumi is a slice of heaven”, in San Francisco Chronicle‎, archived from the original on 16 March 2013:

     In addition, there's a full bar, with some excellent specialty cocktails and a good list of grappa, amari and dessert wines.

     Category:English terms with quotations#AMARO

   • 2013 July 26, Fritz Hahn, “Football and sightseeing in Richmond”, in Independent Online‎, archived from the original on 11 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 as amaros.

     Category:English terms with quotations#AMARO

   • 2023 September 21, Stephen Haines, “W Stands for W”, in The Paris Review‎, archived from the original on 1 October 2023:

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

     Category:English terms with quotations#AMARO

Anagrams

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

Pronoun

amaroCategory:Baltic Romani lemmas#AMAROCategory:Baltic Romani pronouns#AMAROCategory:Baltic Romani personal pronouns#AMAROCategory:Baltic Romani entries with incorrect language header#AMAROCategory:Pages with entries#AMAROCategory:Pages with 10 entries#AMARO

1. (LitovskaCategory:Lithuanian Romani#AMARO) masculine genitive of amē

Verb

amaroCategory:Catalan non-lemma forms#AMAROCategory:Catalan verb forms#AMAROCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#AMAROCategory:Pages with entries#AMAROCategory:Pages with 10 entries#AMARO

1. first-person singular present indicative of amarar

Etymology

From amara +‎ -oCategory:Esperanto terms suffixed with -o#AMARO.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈmaro/Category:Esperanto 3-syllable words#AMAROCategory:Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation#AMARO

• Audio:

  (file)

  Category:Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation#AMARO
• Rhymes: -aroCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/aro#AMAROCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/aro/3 syllables#AMARO
• Syllabification: a‧ma‧ro

Noun

amaro (uncountable, accusative amaron)Category:Esperanto lemmas#AMAROCategory:Esperanto nouns#AMAROCategory:Esperanto uncountable nouns#AMAROCategory:Esperanto entries with incorrect language header#AMAROCategory:Pages with entries#AMAROCategory:Pages with 10 entries#AMARO

1. bitterness

   Synonym: amareco

   • (Can we date this quote?), Valdemar Langlet, “Vojaĝimpresoj”, in Lingvo Internacia:

     mi iris de tie kun doloro kaj amaro en la koro.

     I left with pain and bitterness in my heart.

     Category:Esperanto terms with quotations#AMARO

   • 1955, William Auld, chapter XXV, in La infana raso (kvina eldono):

     mi kredas pri la
     bonvolo de l' homaro,
     ke iam pasos
     kruelo kaj amaro

     I believe in the
     goodwill of humanity,
     that one day will pass
     cruelty and bitterness

     Category:Esperanto terms with quotations#AMARO

   • 1962, Ivan St. Georgien, “101a kanto”, in Provo alfronti la vivon:

     firegno de l' malbelo,
     de l' ploro kaj amaro

     wicked kingdom of ugliness,
     weeping and bitterness

     Category:Esperanto terms with quotations#AMARO

Etymology

Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Ido terms borrowed from French#AMAROCategory:Ido terms derived from French#AMARO amarre, ItalianCategory:Ido terms derived from Italian#AMARO amarra, SpanishCategory:Ido terms derived from Spanish#AMARO amarra.

Noun

amaroCategory:Ido lemmas#AMAROCategory:Ido nouns#AMAROCategory:Ido entries with incorrect language header#AMAROCategory:Pages with entries#AMAROCategory:Pages with 10 entries#AMARO (plural amari)

1. (nauticalCategory:io:Nautical#AMARO) hawser, mooring rope/cable
2. lashing (as for a gun, etc.)

Etymology

From LatinCategory:Italian terms inherited from Latin#AMAROCategory:Italian terms derived from Latin#AMARO amārus, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Italian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#AMARO *h₂eh₃mós (“bitter, raw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈma.ro/Category:Italian 3-syllable words#AMAROCategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#AMARO

• Audio:

  (file)

  Category:Italian terms with audio pronunciation#AMARO
• Rhymes: -aroCategory:Rhymes:Italian/aro#AMAROCategory:Rhymes:Italian/aro/3 syllables#AMARO
• Hyphenation: a‧mà‧ro

Adjective

amaro (feminine amara, masculine plural amari, feminine plural amare, superlative amarissimo)Category:Italian lemmas#AMAROCategory:Italian adjectives#AMAROCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#AMAROCategory:Pages with entries#AMAROCategory:Pages with 10 entries#AMARO

1. bitter

   Antonym: dolce

See also

Basic tastes in Italian · sapori (layout · text)
dolce	acido, aspro	salato	amaro	piccante	saporito, gustoso

Noun

amaro m (plural amari)Category:Italian lemmas#AMAROCategory:Italian nouns#AMAROCategory:Italian countable nouns#AMAROCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#AMAROCategory:Italian masculine nouns#AMAROCategory:Pages with entries#AMAROCategory:Pages with 10 entries#AMARO

1. bitter, bitterness
2. any of several herbal liqueurs

Anagrams

• aroma

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈmaː.roː]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#AMAROCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#AMARO
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈmaː.ro]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#AMAROCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#AMARO

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Adjective

amaro (feminine amara, masculine plural amaros, feminine plural amaras)Category:Portuguese lemmas#AMAROCategory:Portuguese adjectives#AMAROCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#AMAROCategory:Pages with entries#AMAROCategory:Pages with 10 entries#AMARO

1. alternative form of amargo

Noun

amaro m (plural amaros)Category:Portuguese lemmas#AMAROCategory:Portuguese nouns#AMAROCategory:Portuguese countable nouns#AMAROCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#AMAROCategory:Portuguese masculine nouns#AMAROCategory:Pages with entries#AMAROCategory:Pages with 10 entries#AMARO

1. amaro (an Italian herbal liqueur)

Further reading

• “amaro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “amaro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Etymology

Inherited from ApabhramsaCategory:Romani terms inherited from Apabhramsa#AMAROCategory:Romani terms derived from Apabhramsa#AMARO अम्हार (amhāra), from SanskritCategory:Romani terms inherited from Sanskrit#AMAROCategory:Romani terms derived from Sanskrit#AMARO अस्माक (asmā́ka)Category:Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#AMARO.^[1][2] Cognate with Gujarati અમારું (amārũ), Marwari अमारौ (amārau).

Determiner

amaro m sg (nominative feminine singular amari, nominative plural amare)Category:Romani lemmas#AMAROCategory:Romani determiners#AMAROCategory:Romani entries with incorrect language header#AMAROCategory:Pages with entries#AMAROCategory:Pages with 10 entries#AMARO

1. our

   amari ćhib

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

   Category:Romani terms with usage examples#AMARO

Pronoun

amaro m sg (nominative feminine singular amari, nominative plural amare)Category:Romani lemmas#AMAROCategory:Romani pronouns#AMAROCategory:Romani entries with incorrect language header#AMAROCategory:Pages with entries#AMAROCategory:Pages with 10 entries#AMARO

1. ours

   Amen sam e Titosqe, o Tito si amaro.

   We are Tito's, Tito is ours.

   Category:Romani terms with usage examples#AMARO

References

Further reading

• 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, page 59
• 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, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 146

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈmaɾo/ [aˈma.ɾo]Category:Spanish 3-syllable words#AMAROCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#AMARO
• Rhymes: -aɾoCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/aɾo#AMAROCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/aɾo/3 syllables#AMARO
• Syllabification: a‧ma‧ro

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Further reading

• “amaro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025