# amargo
## Asturian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈmaɾɡo/ [aˈmaɾ.ɣ̞o]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾɡo
* Hyphenation: a‧mar‧go

### Adjective

amargo
* neuter of amargu

## Catalan
### Verb

amargo
* first-person singular present indicative of amargar

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese amaro (“bitter”) (from Latin amārus), modified by influence from the verb amargar. Compare Portuguese amargo, Spanish amargo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈmaɾɡo/ [aˈmaɾ.ɣ̞ʊ]
* IPA: (standard) /aˈmaɾɡo/ [aˈmaɾ.ɣ̞ʊ]
* IPA: (gheada) /aˈmaɾħo/ [aˈmaɾ.ħʊ]
* Rhymes: -aɾɡo
* Rhymes: -aɾɡo
* Rhymes: -aɾħo
* Hyphenation: a‧mar‧go

### Adjective

amargo (feminine amarga, masculine plural amargos, feminine plural amargas)
* bitter

#### Derived terms

* amargamente

#### Related terms

* amarelo
* amargar
* amargor
* amargura

#### Further reading

* “amargo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Javanese
### Romanization

amargo
* Nonstandard spelling of amarga. Romanization of ꦲꦩꦂꦒ

## Ladino
### Etymology

Akin to Spanish amargo.

### Adjective

amargo (Latin spelling, feminine amarga, masculine plural amargos, feminine plural amargas)
* bitter

#### Related terms

* amargar

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese amaro (“bitter”) (from Latin amārus), modified by influence from the verb amargar. Compare Galician and Spanish amargo.

#### Alternative forms

* amaro

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /aˈmaʁ.ɡu/ [aˈmaɦ.ɡu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /aˈmaʁ.ɡu/ [aˈmaɦ.ɡu]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /aˈmaɾ.ɡu/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /aˈmaʁ.ɡu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /aˈmaɻ.ɡo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐˈmaɾ.ɡu/ [ɐˈmaɾ.ɣu]
* Hyphenation: a‧mar‧go

#### Adjective

amargo (feminine amarga, masculine plural amargos, feminine plural amargas)
* referring to an unpleasant taste
** bitter, acrid
** with little or no sugar
** acid, spicy
* (figurative) sad, gloomy, sorrowful
* (figurative) rigid, strict, intolerant
* (figurative) resentful

##### Related terms

* amargar
* amargor
* amargoso
* amargura
* amarelo

##### Further reading

* “amargo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

amargo
* first-person singular present indicative of amargar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈmaɾɡo/ [aˈmaɾ.ɣ̞o]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾɡo
* Syllabification: a‧mar‧go

### Etymology 1

From Old Spanish amaro (“bitter”) (from Latin amārus), modified by influence from the verb amargar. Compare with English amaroid.

#### Adjective

amargo (feminine amarga, masculine plural amargos, feminine plural amargas)
* bitter, sour (having an acrid taste)
    Synonym: agrio

##### Derived terms

* amargamente
* amarguísimo
* chaparro amargo
* cohombrillo amargo
* escoba amarga
* jengibre amargo
* melón amargo
* trago amargo
* zapallo amargo

##### Descendants

* → Sardinian: amargu

#### Noun

amargo m (plural amargos)
* bitterness
    Synonym: amargura

##### Related terms

* amargado
* amargar
* amargura
* amarillo

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

amargo
* first-person singular present indicative of amargar

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “amargo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 233

### Further reading

* “amargo”, in Diccionario 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