amarus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →amarus, amara -um, amarior -or -us, amarissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
bitter, brackish, pungent; harsh, shrill; sad, calamitous; ill-natured, caustic;
nom. sg. (m.)
Examples
- A
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...quod est "aveo", eademque esse fictura, qua est "amarus", de quo nihil dici potest, quin duplex..." - P
Amores III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...tibi proderit olim; saepe tulit lassis sucus amarus opem. Ergo ego sustinui, foribus tam saepe repulsus, ingenuum dura..."
