amarus

amarus

1. plural of amaru

• Masaru

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃em-, *h₂eh₃m- (“bitter, raw”). Cognate with Sanskrit आम (āmá, “raw, immature”), Ancient Greek ὠμός (ōmós, “raw, crude”).^[1]

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

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.

First/second-declension adjective.

• “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