amarus

See also: āmarus

English

Noun

amarus

1. plural of amaru

Anagrams

• Masaru

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃em-, *h₂eh₃m- (“bitter, raw”). Cognate with Sanskrit आम (āmá, “raw, immature”), Ancient Greek ὠμός (ōmós, “raw, crude”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈmaː.rus/, [äˈmäːrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈma.rus/, [äˈmäːrus]

Adjective

amārus (feminine amāra, neuter amārum, comparative amārior, superlative amārissimus, adverb amāriter); first/second-declension adjective

1. bitter (taste)
2. harsh, shrill (sound)
3. sarcastic (speech)
4. sour, morose (conduct or behavior)
5. dire, woeful, terrible
   • From the responsory Libera me:

     Diēs illa, diēs irae, calamitātis et miseriae, diēs magna et amāra valdē.

     That day, day of wrath, of calamity and of misery, that great and exceedingly terrible day.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	amārus	amāra	amārum		amārī	amārae	amāra
genitive	amārī	amārae	amārī		amārōrum	amārārum	amārōrum
dative	amārō	amārae	amārō		amārīs
accusative	amārum	amāram	amārum		amārōs	amārās	amāra
ablative	amārō	amārā	amārō		amārīs
vocative	amāre	amāra	amārum		amārī	amārae	amāra

Derived terms

• amārellus
• amāricō
• amāritās
• amārēscō
• dūlcamārus

Related terms

• amarico
• amaritudo
• amaror
• amarulentus

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: amar
  • ⇒ Megleno-Romanian: măros
  • Romanian: amar
• Dalmatian:
  • amur
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: amaru
  • Italian: amaro
  • Sicilian: amaru
• North Italian:
  • Emilian: amar, amèr
  • Friulian: amâr
  • Lombard: amar, mar, mèr (Ticinese)
  • Piedmontese: amèr, mèr, mar, màjar
  • Romagnol: amèr, mèr
  • Romansch: amar
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: amâr
  • Old French: amer
    • French: amer
    • Norman: amé
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Occitan: amar
  • Old Catalan: amar
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: amaro
    • ⇒ Galician: amargo
    • ⇒ Portuguese: amargo
  • Old Spanish: amaro
    • ⇒ Spanish: amargo
• Borrowings:
  • →⇒ Byzantine Greek: *ἀμαρούλιον (*amaroúlion), μαρούλιον (maroúlion) (see there for further descendants)

References

• “amarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “amarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• amarus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• amarus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 777