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amara

amara is a Latin form of amarus, meaning “bitter; harsh, sharp”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective or ablative singular feminine adjective.

Found 40 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 3.13: … icit. Ius enim, de quo quaerimus, civile est aliquod, naturale nullum; nam si esset, ut calida et frigida, ut amara et dulcia, sic essent iusta et iniusta eadem omnibus.

All forms of amarus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.