amargo
Asturian edit
Pronunciation edit
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amargo
Catalan edit
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amargo
- first-person singular present indicative form of amargar
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese amaro (“bitter”) (from Latin amārus), modified by influence from the verb amargar. Compare Portuguese amargo, Spanish amargo.
Adjective edit
amargo (feminine amarga, masculine plural amargos, feminine plural amargas)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “amargo” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Javanese edit
Conjunction edit
amargo
- Nonstandard spelling of amarga.
Ladino edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
amargo (Latin spelling, feminine amarga, masculine plural amargos, feminine plural amargas)
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Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese amaro (“bitter”) (from Latin amārus), modified by influence from the verb amargar. Compare Galician and Spanish amargo.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: a‧mar‧go
Adjective edit
amargo (feminine amarga, masculine plural amargos, feminine plural amargas)
- referring to an unpleasant taste
- (figurative) sad, gloomy, sorrowful
- (figurative) rigid, strict, intolerant
- (figurative) resentful
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Further reading edit
- “amargo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Spanish amaro (“bitter”) (from Latin amārus), modified by influence from the verb amargar.[1] Compare with English amaroid.
Adjective edit
amargo (feminine amarga, masculine plural amargos, feminine plural amargas)
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Descendants edit
- → Sardinian: amargu
Noun edit
amargo m (plural amargos)
- bitterness
- Synonym: amargura
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Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
amargo
References edit
- ^ Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “amargo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 233
Further reading edit
- “amargo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014